Unless you’ve been living under a rock or a secluded cave the whole of 2011, then the following should ring the loudest bell in your head it should push you to the edge of insanity. All scandalous and appalling, these are the headlines that raised our eyebrows to our hairlines, sending shock-waves through our unexpecting spines, leaving us wagging and hungry for more goss.
Kuli’ supposed ‘racist’ accusations for her column on coloured people 
She is one woman who calls a spade what it is. Kuli made headlines when she wrote a column about coloured people in February this year, saying among other things:
“They drink black Label beer and smoke like chimneys”,
“They shout and throw plates”,”They have no front teeth and eat fish like they are trying to deplete the ocean” and
“…girls breed like Allan Boesak sent them on a mission to increase the coloured race”. Her article became so controversial and after a noisy public outcry Kuli had to apologise on television.
The SAMA DISASTA
I was one of the lucky few who missed the well-marketed SAMA’s which turned out to be a complete dullard! Streams of let-down reviews followed after the bleak much anticipated annual music event aimed at honoring SA greatest in Music. Let’s hope the SAMA organizers learned a thing or two from the Metros.
Zahara’s overnight rise to Stardom 
Bulelwa Mkutukane, popularly known as Zahara was just a normal girl-next door, going by the name Spinach before the fame-bug bit her. She has come a long way and after the release of her album ‘Loliwe’ which flew off the shelves in its first week, Zahara became a household name. Social sites took a rumpus buzz as the hype about this latest gem of an export from the EC grew thick and spread like wildfire. She has to date sold more than 310 000 copies, and this excludes the bogus R1 copies sold in the dusty PretoriA streets - sies! Zahara is a sensational mega-star!
Khanyi claims to be a ‘good girl’
Khanyi is definitely one of the masters of developing a headline. Since her failed 'media-unrestricted' marriage to Mandla Mthembu, Khanyi has managed to stay on the news and her latest revelation about being a “good girl” is a true shocker. Would she be able to survive without a loaded sugar-daddy? All that golden life she used to live - how is she gonna 'sustain' a 'nice-girl' life after that?
Nonhle Thema’s Twitter outbursts
After an enormous billion thumbs-down fiasco of her
Nonhle goes to Holywhatwhat reality show, we exprienced our little Miss Thema take a mental Twitter rant trip. We have helplessly observed her constant hopeless outbursts on Twitter, attacking everything, from celebrities, her followers, trees, animals and satan. Makisto even wrote an article
here about some of her BOOM! Moments on Twitter. Nonhle’s mental instabilities scored her a drama queen of the year at this year’s flamboyant Feather Awards.
Sports Awards snap drama ram
During the star-studded Sport Awards at Razzmataz, some serious drama broke in which some of the prominent Mzasi celebs were shown the door by an ageing American ‘has-been’ flick star Vivica A. Fox, Apparently (according to PruLuv’s article
here) the stars were called on stage to “take a pic” when everyone who thought they are ‘newsworthy’ or ‘weaveworthy’ ran like primary school kids queuing for sweets, attacking the stage to pose. This did not sit well with the gangster and undoubtedly ghetto Vivica, who didn’t waste a minute before telling everyone to Move!.
Jub Jub accuses witnesses of lying
Jub Jub’s name has forever reigned in the mud. From his scandalous fraudulent mother Mama Jackie to him beating his Afro-pop singing sensation ‘baby-mama’ Kelly Khumalo to a pulp. Jub Jub “claims” that the witnesses lied and that his mini-cooper didn’t hit the kids, nor had even a stain of blood on it, apparently (according to Mr Maarohanye) his car hit a curb and then a tree, the accident took the innocent lives of four school kids in 2010 – mxm. He’s always had a penchant for drama! Just on Tuesday the Chief Investigating Officer was butchered dead, should we be asking questions? I say pips, don’t get involved, y’all are gonna die!
Fikile Mbalula’s “broken condom”
Who can forget Fikile Mbalula’s unprotected sex romp scandal which made headlines. The very busy Mr Mbalula then had the guts to ask for ‘Privacy’ from Media in the aftermath of the blazing national reports which revealed his infidelity and sinful sexual activities. Rosette Mokgomosti’s pregnancy turmoil was also connected to Minister Fikile Mbalula. Mbalula later apologized to his wife and family… hope he zips his pants in 2012.
Jackie Selebi’s meltdown shocker
The ongoing nightmare of our former media-brave National Police Commisioner Jackie Selebi were not about to end soon, as high-highs and temperatures grew solid sending the old man on a “mini-stroke”. My thoughts are the wrinkly old man couldn’t deal with the news of his arrest and he fell into a mini-collapse-session, as if that wasn’t enough, he ended up in jail anyway!
Juju sips the bitter med
The common politically well-known blabber mouth Juju got silenced with a 5 year suspension after being found guilty of provoking divisions within the ANC and discrediting the organization. This became a “talk-about” as all publications cashed in on it. Malema was accused of stimulating a serious embarrassment to the ruling party. Love or Loath Malema it’s your own prerogative, he made headlines in 2011.
"I can heal Somgaga", so says Pastor Mbhoro
Infamous Pastor Mbhoro runs to the Sunday tabloids to announce that if Somizi, whose health has been on a serious plummet , came to him, he’d ‘heal’ him. Attention Seeking Syndrome (ASS) if you ask me. He doesn’t even know what’s eating the talented dancer/turned choreographer/musician/actor/ comedienne. Somizi hasn’t come forward about his “diet gone wrong” condition which seems to have sent shock waves and TJO’s across Mzansi. This has been one of the 2011 shockers!
i might have missed a few of these headliners, do bring on the others and lets rant! Hope 2012 becomes even more scandalous to give us something to talk about, don't we just adore our celebrities?