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Am I jumping the gun here? I don’t think so. I think the time has come. Maybe we’re lucky. Maybe South African Presdient, Cyril Ramapostponement will announce tonight that South Africa will be moving into lockdown level 2. I am pretty sure he is going to lift the ban on alcohol and tobacco sales, but I don’t think it will happen immediately. I reckon he is gonna tune us that inter-provincial travel will be allowed, schools will start opening and that pubs and restaurants will be able to operate as per usual by the end of August. I think flu season is more or less over for us. Summer is on the way. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for America who is heading into winter as well as natural disaster season. Kak gaan spat in Trump land and Trump is gonna see his fokken gat in November while all this other kak is flying around them.

So let’s have a sigh of relief for ourselves at lease and at the same time sommer have a lag at our local okes who will soon be able to make money in front of live audiences again:

Schalk Bezuidenhout
This Kempton Park marabs with the curly hair and kak tasete for jerseys won the 2013 Comics Choice Newcomer Award, was nominated as Breakthrough Act of the Year in 2014, and won the Intermediate Award in 2015. He has equally endeared himself to audiences across cultures and countries and made people the poes in. Skhumba called “the one white comedian loved by black people”. In Snorseun and Schalkie, his third Afrikaans and English one-man shows respectively, Schalk once again has a go at himself, Afrikaner identity and preconceptions in general.

Tsitsi Chiumya
You don’t know him, so I’m gonna tell you about Tsitsi – he necame the first black video game designer to graduate from Wits but his success in stand-up comedy totally fucked up his gaming career plans.  Named the Comics Choice Best Newcomer in 2018, Tsitsi won the 2019 Next Level Award, and hosted last year’s Savanna Newcomer Showcase. He’s also earned a SAFTA for script-writing as part of the team behind Puppet Nation. He is a master of observational comedy and totes awkies stories and has performed across South Africa and Zambia, Europe and the US. Catch him in So Naive

Jason Goliath
This oke was nominated for Best Newcomer in the 2012 Comics Choice Awards abd went on to scoop the Nando’s Best Friend of Comedy Award for three years running, from 2015 to 2017, with his co-owned entertainment company, Goliath & Goliath. The Goliath-family do a shitload of good for the comedy scene in South Africa. Catch him in Manstruation: Surviving a Wife where he laughs at life’s uncomfortable truths and making the everyday hilarious; as well as Live at Parker’s where he brings his big personality to the stage in this hit set at Parker’s Comedy Club.

Rikus de Beer (Radio Raps)
You are spoiled for choice when it comes to Radio Raps. Almost all his stuff is available on Showmax. There is the Radio Raps Show where internet sensation Jonathan from Radio Raps gives his unvarnished opinions on South Africa, parenting, food and more; the Radio Raps Tour where he fills you in on all the life lessons you’ve been missing, his one-man show, Laat Ek Jou So Sê; Radio Raps: Life 101 and Radio Raps: Life 201 for more tongue-in-cheek life lessons; Dingetjies en Goetertjies where he discusses life’s irritations, Genuine, where he delights the audience with his take on married life, the problems with social media groups and his thoughts on TV classics like Boer Soek ‘n Vrou and of course the very popular Chat ‘n Bietjie Ball where a sit down with the panel discusses all the tries, misses and burning issues around the latest Vodacom Super Rugby matches.

Dillan Oliphant
The fresh-faced fokker is fast making a name for himself because of his unusual smart approach to comedy making you think about the subjects he covers while you’re laughing your ass off, especially with his comedy special, In a Lonely Place <— this is the first thing I’m watching this weekend!

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Need more? Check out our top 10 list of movies and TV series picks from the Plumlist. It is my to-go-to website when I’m stuck for streaming ideas:

#10. Eight Jason Blum titles for fans of Get Out Jason Blum is a renowned horror-movie producer, with his company Blumhouse Productions having brought us critically acclaimed and award-winning films like Get Out and franchises like Paranormal Activity and The Purge.	On Showmax (read more)
# 9 Nine shows and movies to watch online starring Nicole Kidman She’s one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, and has earned an Oscar, four Golden Globes and two Emmys over the course of her career that has spanned more than 35 years.	On Amazon Prime, Netflix, Showmax & DStv Now (read more)
#8 Marmite shows: you’ll either love or hate these picks Hands up if your mother ever forbade you from leaving the dinner table until you’d finished your Brussels sprouts, peas, porridge, or whatever? Battle lines were drawn, and it would come down to who cracked first.	On Netflix & Showmax (read more)
#7 Eleven series that put a new spin on a classics If you think that coming up with a new show from scratch is tough, you ain’t seen nothing. Rebooting a franchise that did well decades ago and pulling it off is often trickier thanks to nostalgia and ultra-fans not being happy with their “precious” being meddled with. But sometimes the rebooted version is just as good as the original.	On DStv Now, Netflix & Showmax (read more)
#6 Ten Afrikaans flieks to stream Whether you’ve seen them before and want to relive the romance, the action and the drama, or are looking for a new film to fall in love with, you can’t go wrong with these movies that your fellow streamers have watched again and again.	On Showmax (read more)
#5 Twenty five series and movies set in the Big Apple New York City, NYC, The Big Apple – even if you’ve never been there in real life, it is instantly recognisable from the hundreds, if not thousands, of films and TV series that have either been set there, filmed there, or both…ever since the 1900s.	OnShowmax & Netflix (read more)
4# Destroyer Destroyer is a heavy-weight, neo-noir crime drama starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman in a 2019 Golden Globe-nominated performance as a damaged ex-LAPD cop with a score to settle, some wrongs to right, and a history to set straight. As Variety says, “Nothing Nicole Kidman has done can prepare you for Destroyer”.	On Showmax (read more)
#3 Down To Earth With Zac Efron In this hugely popular doccie series, the actor Zac Efron teams up with wellness consultant Darin Olien to travel the world and study health practices in a variety of cultures. From studying Iceland’s renewable energy and sampling reindeer meat to potato cryopreservation in Peru and beekeeping on the roof of a New York skyscraper, they leave no stone unturned across Europe and the Americas to discover the secret to longevity and finding new ways to preserve our planet’s natural resources.	On Netlix (read more)
#2 Bombshell Based on the true story, this blockbuster drama is superbly led by Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman, and Oscar nominee Margot Robbie, all three of whom, Rolling Stone says, “come out blazing in this tale of how the women of Fox News brought down a predatory CEO,” adding, “It’s explosive entertainment that means to make a difference.”	On DStv Now and Showmax (read more)
#1 Idols SA S16 There’s a lot to look forward to in the latest season of South Africa’s most-watched reality show. For starters, contestants were allowed to enter the show online if they couldn’t make it to one of the audition cities, which has unearthed a wealth of talent we might not otherwise have got to see.	On DStv Now  (read more)

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Each week we take a number from 1 to 10 from our list of suggestions and put it through a randomizer to choose a trailer to show you. This week it landed on our number 3 spot, “Down To Earth With Zac Efron!

In his new travel show, actor Zac Efron journeys around the world with wellness expert Darin Olien in search of healthy, sustainable ways to live.