Good News

BULLETIN 11 November

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# South Africa’s Tyla won three awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards held in Manchester, England. She won Best R&B, Best Afrobeats, and Best African Artist. Pop superstar Taylor Swift was the big winner, walking away with four awards, namely Best Artist, Best Video for her collaboration with Post Malone on Fortnight, Best Live, and Best US Act. Other winners include Eminem, Ariana Grande, and Raye. Tyla says she was honoured and shocked to have won:

# Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story won all six of its nominated categories at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards held in New York, including best documentary feature and best editing. It was tied with Netflix’s Will and Harper for best documentary feature. Sugarcane, which scored the most nominations this year with eight, won two awards, for best political documentary and best true-crime documentary. The Last of the Sea Women and Simone Biles Rising also won two awards each. The best historical documentary went to The Greatest Night in Pop.

# The third and final instalment of Sony’s comic book trilogy, Venom: The Last Dance, remained top of the North American box office. The film starring Tom Hardy and Juno Temple earned an additional 2.8-billion-rand in its third weekend of release. New releases, Lionsgate’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and A24’s horror thriller Heretic, starring Hugh Grant, came in second and third respectively. Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot dropped to fourth place with Paramount’s Smile 2 rounding out the top five.

# Project Hope SA has reached the 80-percent mark toward spreading Christmas joy for underprivileged children in KwaZulu-Natal. The initiative seeks to bring festive cheer to 32 children from the 1000 Hills Soccer Club. Each gift, wrapped in a decorated shoebox, includes toothpaste, a toothbrush, soap, a washcloth, deodorant, a soccer ball and some sweets. The organisation says it is still welcoming more donations from companies or individuals looking to partner with them in this project.

# And finally: The Department of Social Development says it has been able to facilitate the reunion of a Gauteng mother with her daughter, whom she gave up for adoption 22 years ago. The daughter now lives with her adoptive family in the Netherlands. This past Saturday marked World Adoption Day. The department’s spokesperson, Bathembu Futshane, says adoption offers children the opportunity for a loving, stable home and can change lives forever:

Stay tuned for more news………….