OK, what an nice experience i had of this year's SAMA's!!
Before i begin i would like to know why is it that people call it the SAMA awards? kanti what does the last A on SAMA stand for? Is it just me or is it wrong to call it SAMA awards?
Anyway that is not my reason for this article...
From the day i got confirmation for the tickets, to me worrying on what am i going to wear, to the day a fellow blogger reminded that im not a celebrity so i do not have to worry about the sama awards's outfit, to going around Parktown trying to find the PR company for the media pass sticker to the actually day of the event and the afterparty, i have been nothing but excited.
1 ticket was for the goodie bag room(which i never went to), 2 for the drinks room(which my date was waiting for me at), 1 for the yellow carpet, and 2 for the main event. Am sure y'all are wondering why am i telling you all these? Well we were told that the after party is full. WTF?? When does a party get full? I would expect to be told that the superbowl is full because the seats are limited, but a party where people stand the whole night?? full?? I never bought that and told myself i will go to that after party by force, of which i did but thats a story for later.
So we where told to arrive at 16:00 to prepare because the yellow carpet starts @ 17:30 but you know African time mos, that 16:00 we where about 80 km's from sun city, and i had never been to sun city. I didnt know about the bus/train systems there..
Got around there @ 17:50, had to wait for the train to take us inside for the tickets. Had to ask around for the place to get the tickets, asked friendly & unfriendly *sigh*(wonder why you take a job that requires you to talk to people if you know you are so damn rude, biatch)
Eventually when i got the tickets, i had to go back by train*sigh* to fetch some stuff in the car, and go back by bus only to find out i missed out a lot on the yellow carpet. I will let this few pics that i took do the talking...
So here goes...
Miss Puff still in Mzantsi
Everyone arrived on Audi Q7 & A4’s except for one person that is a special case, she made sure she made an entrance.
There was some woman(pictured below) that was standing on the yellow carpet, and asked me who am I taking pictures for? I mean WTF? I know I was the only who had a ‘small’ camera from all those big media camera’s but I had a media tag and that should have meant to the woman that I am not taking pictures for my personal album. Even if I was, I wasn’t taking pictures of her and people whose pictures I was taking didn’t mind besides I had permission to be taking pics there. But like they say common sense is not always common
EDITED, REMOVED THE RUDE WOMAN'S PICTURE AS PER HER REQUEST!!!
I love celebs, they are the friendliest people I have ever come across. Am not sure if they do it in public or they are friendly in real life. Everyone posed for pictures, from Snuki Zikalala to Julius Malema to the yotv kids.
looking too hot for a jobless dude, Mr Zikalala
JUJU, that linen jacket & polo neck was a NO NO
This was the most unfriendly pose i got, but its probably that she was on the phone
Kelly Khumalo
nearly lost it when one of the photographers called her Khanyi, she passed without posing for him and shouted ‘haiye, im not Khanyi’ . Well I wont be able to comment on most of the pictures since am not a fashion guru but there were some people looked too horrific. E.g Tamara Dey.
I also spotted Mmabatho Montsho craming her lines, haiye maan sisi you are allowed to cram but not on the yellow carpet in front of camera’s.
The sweetest celeb award has to go to Theo Kgosinkwe, that man loves God, loves his wife & kid and he doesn’t finish a paragraph without praising God. I had never seen him in person and he didn’t know me but he was soo nice to me that he thanked me for taking a pic of him.
you know when people get too nice that it just feels wrong? that was the case with this man.
I tried cracking my skull asking myself if I was really seeing Meikie from Muvhango? Are they allowed to attend functions or is she trying to be Khanyi? Hopefully she has a rich husband to back you up when bra Duma shows you the door.
Kim(Lolly from Isidingo) arrived with a little girl who it seemed she was told that she will be interviewed. She went straight to Zizo Beda of Selimathunzi for an ‘interview’. Hahha that was classic.
OK, I don’t like it when people who usually come with celebs also think they are celebs. I asked to take Julius Malema’s pic and some woman in orange hair was like they are not celebs so they don’t take pics. WTF?? Was I asking them or him? My groupie date also wanted a pic with Lesley from Jozi & his friends also wanted to be part of the pic and they got pissed when I asked to take a pic with DA LES alone. I mean I don’t know them, what on earth am I going to do with their pictures?
It seemed
like some people where shopping in the same place
Bonang's lovely dress(my opinion)
When you see this, what comes to mind?
Khanyi arrived on her yellow toy for the yellow carpet, weren’t the bank repossessing it last week? When she got there the car was ravved(sp) to make everyone aware that Ms Mbau had arrived. The madala who had to drive the car back couldn’t start the car & the crowd booed him, but Ms Mbau wasn’t interested @ all. She is soo patient and was nice, she greeted everyone who greeted her back and anyone who asked for her picture she posed for them. She had the yellow carpet outfit, the stage outfit & the afterparty outfit. Her sidekick Jeff of Jeff international dressed her.
OK i no longer have much to say, i will let you judge and separate the best from the worst.
Tansey Cotzee
Anele & Jen Su of 5fm
Selimathunzi crew
I was also nice enough to take pictures of unknown characters on the yellow carpet because they posed
and this one
anyway where was i? more celeb pics
Jamali
She was one of the biggest nominees of the night, wats her name kanene??
Jozi without Ishmael.
always looking good Criselda
siyabonga & date, dude we take pics on the yellow carpet. RIGHT!!!
BIG NUZ, i also thought it was 1 person
1 of the most horrible dresses of the evening
daddy dearest, pity Zakes didnt win anything
someone mentioned Andile having a good taste, haiye andikhosho
this guys needs to tell me who exactly are their group membas, the guy in the middle was new to me.
bhuti Ringo and the lady with a great voice , Mmathapelo
The main event started and with a host like Trevor Noah I can have the SAMA’s every month. We were seated very far so I couldn’t take stage pics but then again we were told that we cant take pictures inside. But am sure y’all caught up with the fashion on stage, the performances and the acceptance speeches.
I will be back with PART 2 of more pics and afterparty goss....
Special thanks to Tashi for organising the tickets to the event, you are the best -:)