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Jacob's Cross
Jacob's Cross is an African prime time drama series that premiered on M-Net in January 2007 and ended its 8 series run in 2013. Produced in South Africa, the show initially aired on M-net series but was later repurposed as a drama for M-Net's AfricaMagic channels. The show was given to South African Broadcasting Corporation in April 2009. Premise The series revolves around South African born businessman Jacob Makhubu Abayomi (Hlomla Dandala), a son of an ANC stalwart who finds that his biological father is actually a Nigerian tribal chief. Jacob's subsequent desire to build an African oil and gas business empire in the shadow of both of his fathers is set against the backdrop of family feuds and betrayals. Main cast *Hlomla Dandala Hlomla Dandala (born 22 September 1974) is a South African actor, television presenter, and director. He is best known for his roles as Derek Nyathi in ''Isidingo'' (1998–2001), title character Jacob Makhubu in '' Jacob's Cross'' (since 200 ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hlomla Dandala
Hlomla Dandala (born 22 September 1974) is a South African actor, television presenter, and director. He is best known for his roles as Derek Nyathi in ''Isidingo'' (1998–2001), title character Jacob Makhubu in '' Jacob's Cross'' (since 2007), and host of the reality dating show ''All You Need Is Love'' from 2002 to 2003. He starred in the drama series ''Rockville'' as Gomorrah, the main antagonist of the third season, and e.tv's prime time soap opera, '' Scandal!'' as Kingsley Siseko Langa from 2016 until 2019. As of 2018, Dandala stars in '' The River'' across Sindi Dlathu (who plays Lindiwe) as her husband, Commissioner Zweli Dikana. Dandala is the son of Mvume Dandala and has a sister Gqibelo. He speaks five languages: Afrikaans, English, Xhosa, Sesotho and Zulu. Filmography Television Reality * Channel O (1995 - 1998) * All You Need Is Love (2000) Series * ''Isidingo'' (as Derek Nyathi, season 1-4) *'' Rockville'' (as Gomorrah, season 3) * Jacob's Cross (as J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendra Oluchi Etufunwa
Kendra Oluchi Etufunwa is a Nigerian model and actress, best known for her lead role on the M-Net hit TV series ''Jacob's Cross''. She has been featured in top publications such as South African ''Elle'' magazine and ''Glamour'' (SA) and modeled in advertisements for brands such as Castle Milk Stout, Pepsodent and Knorr. In March 2012, the technology company Intel in Kenya and Nigeria appointed Etufunwa as brand ambassador for their lifestyles' division. Kendra moved to New York City from South Africa in 2010 and walked the runway for Lilly Ghalichi’s brand “want my look” at the New York Fashion Week in 2012. Early life Kendra grew up in the suburbs of Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria, with her mother and sister. Kendra is the daughter of a businesswoman and a retired banker. She studied physical and health education at Delta State University (Abraka Campus). Etufunwa went on to further her education by signing up for a two-year course in human resources at the London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-Net
M-Net (an abbreviation of Electronic Media Network) is a South African pay television channel established by Naspers in 1986. The channel broadcasts both local and international programming, including general entertainment, children's series, sport and movies. While the TV signal is generally encrypted, M-Net showed some programmes 'free to air' in its "Open Time" slot between 5 p.m. and 7 pm, until the slot closed on 1 April 2007. In the early 1990s, M-Net added a second analogue channel called Community Services Network (CSN),''Mass Media, Towards the Millennium: The South African Handbook of Mass Communication'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa Magic
Africa Magic is a collection of Pay TV entertainment channels that focus on African programming, most popularly Nigerian series and movies. ''Africa Magic'', which started off as single channel of the same name, is a brand owned by M-Net and now comprises seven channels. History Africa Magic was launched in July 2003 as a movie and general entertainment channel geared at showcasing Nollywood talent and African culture and couture. At the time of its launch it received high popularity amongst DStv subscribers, especially in South Africa and Nigeria. Thus the launching of a sister channel, Africa Magic Plus, was made possible. The two channels went on another brand identity and over the next decade, the brand expanded to include seven more channels comprising movies, television shows and general entertainment. Africa Magic broadcasts in more than 50 African countries. The channels include ''Africa Magic Family'', ''Africa Magic Showcase'', ''Africa Magic Yoruba'', ''Africa Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Broadcasting Corporation
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations ( AM/ FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public. It is one of the largest of South Africa's state-owned enterprises. Opposition politicians and civil society often criticise the SABC, accusing it of being a mouthpiece for whichever political party is in majority power, thus currently the ruling African National Congress; during the apartheid era it was accused of playing the same role for the National Party government. Company history Early years Radio broadcasting in South Africa began in 1923, under the auspices of South African Railways, before three radio services were licensed: the Association of Scientific and Technical Societies (AS&TS) in Johannesburg, the Cape Peninsular Publicity Association in Cape Town and the Durban Corporation, which began broadcasting in 1924. These merged into the African Broadcasting Company in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-Net Series
M-Net Series is a defunct group of television channels broadcast by South African pay TV satellite network M-Net across Sub-Saharran Africa on DStv. Most of the programmes broadcast are repeats of episodes previously shown on M-Net. History A single series channel was introduced in 2000 as a sister channel to the original M-Net channel. On 9 July 2013, this channel was split into three, namely ''M-Net Series Showcase'', ''M-Net Series Reality'' and ''M-Net Series Zone''. On 11 September 2014, it was announced that ''Series Showcase'' and ''Series Reality'' would be discontinued and replaced with two new channels, ''VUZU AMP'' and ''M-Net Edge'', on 20 and 13 October, respectively. ''M-Net Series Showcase'', which was broadcast in high definition, previously served as the primary series channel on which most new content unique to Series was broadcast. ''M-Net Series Reality'' broadcast talk shows and other reality media. These two channels were discontinued in October 2014, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian Chieftaincy
The Nigerian Chieftaincy is the chieftaincy system that is native to Nigeria. Consisting of everything from the country's monarchs to its titled family elders, the chieftaincy as a whole is one of the oldest continuously existing institutions in Nigeria and is legally recognized by its government. History Nigerian pre-colonial states tended to be organized as city-states. The empires that did exist, like the Kanem-Borno empire, the Oyo empire, the Benin empire and the Sokoto caliphate, were essentially coalitions of these individual city-states. Due to this, a great deal of local power was concentrated in the hands of rulers that remained almost permanently in their capitals. These rulers had sacred functions - a number of them were even considered to be sacred themselves - and therefore often lived in seclusion as a result. Their nobles, both hereditary and otherwise, typically also had functions that were tied to the religious traditions of the kingdoms that they s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mmabatho Montsho
Mmabatho Montsho (born October 19, 1983) is a South African fine artist , writer, actress and film director. Biography Montsho was born in Soweto, Johannesburg. She had her senior high school education at Greenside High School and then furthered at the University of South Africa where she studied Audiovisual Multimedia. While in senior high school, Montsho was interested in Fashion. She launched her very first label ''Black Olive Designs'' after completing high school. She collaborated with her close high school friends to grow the business by designing clothes and selling them at B&B Rooftop market. In 2004, their clothing line earned public recognition at the South African fashion week. In 2006, she began her acting career, appearing as a guest on SABC 1's ''A Place Called Home'' Filmography She has starred in several movies and television series, including: * ''Jacob's Cross'' * ''Happiness Is a Four-letter Word'' *''Artcha'' *'' Mr Bones 2: Back from the future as W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kole Omotoso
Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (born 21 April 1943), also known as Kole Omotoso, is a Nigerian writer and intellectual best known for his works of fiction and in South Africa as the "Yebo Gogo man" in adverts for the telecommunications company Vodacom. His written work is known for its dedication and commitment to fusing a socio-political reappraisal of Africa and respect for human dignity into most of his works. Early life and education Kole Omotoso was born into a Yoruba family in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents after the death of his father. Though the lack of a father figure could crush a young Nigerian boy, the events of his early childhood contributed a great deal to his development as a man and also as a writer. Omotoso was educated at King's College, Lagos, and the University of Ibadan and then undertook a doctoral thesis on the modern Arabic writer Ahmad Ba Kathir at the University of Edinburgh. Later life Omotoso returned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moky Makura
Moky Makura is a Nigerian author, journalist, actress, and businesswoman who serves as an executive director of ''Africa No Filter'', an organization aiming at inducing changes in Africa by means of mass media. Life Makura was born in Lagos, Nigeria, as a member of the House of Akinsemoyin, a royal family of the Nigerian chieftaincy system. She has a degree in politics, economics, and law from University of Buckingham. In 1998, she moved to South Africa, and in 1999, started her own consultancy company. She was deputy director for Communications Africa at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and since 2017 the representative of the Foundation in South Africa. In South Africa, she also acted on television, mainly in the ''Jacob's Cross Jacob's Cross is an African prime time drama series that premiered on M-Net in January 2007 and ended its 8 series run in 2013. Produced in South Africa, the show initially aired on M-net series but was later repurposed as a drama for M-Net's Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian Drama Television Series
Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Baron Frederick Lugard, a British colonial administrator. ''Nigeria'' is composed of various ethnic groups and cultures and the term Nigerian refers to a citizenship-based civic nationality. Nigerians derive from over 250 ethnic groups and languages.Toyin Falola. ''Culture and Customs of Nigeria''. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 4. Though there are multiple ethnic groups in Nigeria, economic factors result in significant mobility of Nigerians of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds to reside in territories in Nigeria that are outside their ethnic or religious background, resulting in the mixing of the various ethnic and religious groups, especially in Nigeria's cities.Toyin Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Nigerian Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
