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Dr Tumi appears in court for fraudGospel artist and medical doctor, Dr Tumi Makweya and his wife have been released on bail after being arrested for allegedly defrauding the National Lotteries Board (NLB). By Onalenna Mhlongo #Newsmaker: Tshego Tshukutswane, Wunderman Thompson SA's new group chief strategy officerEarlier this year, Wunderman Thompson SA announced the appointment of Tshego Tshukutswane to its executive team as group chief strategy officer. Tshukutswane joined this month succeeding Moagi Bodibe, who has taken up independent consulting. By Jessica Tennant Thirst Cape Town under ...

Kai Luke Brummer, center, in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) South Africa, 1981. A few teenage soldiers, tanned, blond, just out of boyhood, enjoy a rare night out with a few female companions. Michael (Matthew Vey) drags on a cigarette and informs their new friends that, “we don’t feel a thing.” Later, he repeats himself back at camp, near the Angolan border, where the troops patrol for landmines and “communist” insurgents: “I feel nothing,” he reminds himself, as soldiers shoot ...

From a South African Slur to a Scathing Drama About Toxic Masculinity The new film “Moffie” examines the brainwashing of a generation of white men in the twilight of the apartheid regime. Oliver Hermanus, the “Moffie” director, said the drama is “really about shame and indoctrination.”Credit...Alexander Coggin for The New York Times April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET “Mo-FFIES!” chant the soldiers, precisely lined up under a baking sun, as a screaming sergeant reviles two men reported to be lovers. “Mo-ffies! Mo-ffies! Mo-ffies!” The word is a homophobic slur in Afrikaans, and th...

Advertisement Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie opens with an uneasy send-off dinner, followed soon after by a veritable descent into hell. The setting is South Africa in 1981, and 18-year-old Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), like all other white boys over 16, is being conscripted for military service and a tour on the Angolan border, ostensibly to fend off communist terrorists. After a snaking train passage shot through with mounting terror, he soon finds himself in the darkness of a boot camp, under the thumb of Sergeant Brand (Hilton Pelser), an all-too-believable sadist who takes perve...

Cary Darling April 5, 2021Updated: April 5, 2021, 11:30 am Kai Luke Brummer as Nicholas in Oliver Hermanus’ “Moffie.” Photo: IFC Films “Moffie,” a derogatory Afrikaans term for “gay,” is dismissive shorthand for everything that the young men in the harrowing film of the same name, from South African director Oliver Hermanus, don’t want to be. Set amid a group of freshly arrived white army conscripts who will be sent to fight communist guerrillas along the Angolan border in apartheid-era South Africa, it’s a riveting portrait of a particular time and place while ...