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News24
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- News24
5 Times Bontle Modiselle gave us serious baby fever
Oupa Bopape With grace and ease, she carries her baby bump while dancing and dressing beautifully. Since announcing her second pregnancy, Bontle has truly captured our hearts and gave serious baby fever. South African dancer and actress Bontle Modiselle-Moloi is a force to be reckoned whether it's killing moves on the dance floor or putting on a great show on our TV screens, she is never caught slacking. She and her husband generated quite a buzz online when they announced their second pregnancy in April through a creative 'dipstick video' showing their positive pregnancy test. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bontle MaAfrika Moloi (@ Since then, she's been posting openly about her pregnancy journey, giving us incurable baby fever. We take a look at five baby bump moments from Bontle we absolutely love. Her pregnancy shoot View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bontle MaAfrika Moloi (@ Mommy and Daddy View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bontle MaAfrika Moloi (@ With her first born daughter Afrika View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bontle MaAfrika Moloi (@ Breaking a sweat doing the Zenzele dance challenge View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bontle MaAfrika Moloi (@ Looking stunning in a body hugging dress View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bontle MaAfrika Moloi (@
News24
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News24
Priddy Ugly opens up about fatherhood, second bundle of joy and new music
Present fatherhood is one of his biggest flexes. Over and above his rap lines, his fans have grown to love this about him. In fact, his relationship with his daughter, Afrika Moloi, Priddy Ugly (born Richardo Moloi) has garnered as much endearment on social media as his relationship with his wife, media personality and celebrity choreographer, Bontle Modiselle-Moloi. The two lovebirds have been together for 16 years, married for about five years with one daughter, expecting their second bundle of joy. Ever since their recent pregnancy announcement, Bontle has served nothing but pregnancy goals alongside her small family. Speaking about how they approached pregnancy differently this second time around, Priddy Ugly admits to Drum that no pregnancy is the same. 'It wasn't necessarily scary, but no pregnancy is the same. With the first pregnancy, the adrenaline was high. Bontle was working. She was on the radio at the time with Scoop Makhathini and eight months into the pregnancy, Scoop didn't even know she was pregnant. That's how well we were able to hide it then. 'With this one, she started showing a lot earlier. In fact, if it had been up to us, we wouldn't have announced it even now. It still would've been a secret, the issue is that we had already been seen in public, people had started seeing us, people were stealing pictures, stealing videos, and we decided to announce it before anyone did it for us and made it their own. We were like, 'Let's control the narrative, let's make it our own, let's make it fun'. We then made a cool announcement, people loved it, and they showed us love,' he adds. Having had Afrika at the heigh of covid, fatherhood the first time around wasn't the easiest journey for Priddy. Not only were they isolated from their families' help but Bontle was also booked and busy at the time. In a couple of interviews, Bontle has opened up about the mom guilt she soldiered through that stemmed from needing to go back to hard-on work shortly after her daughter's birth. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bontle MaAfrika Moloi (@ At the time, Bontle was shooting Netflix's Jiva! series which became a huge success. 'It was very difficult for Bontle. While she was pregnant, she was busy with production, and everything was put on hold because they had to wait for her. Two weeks after her birth, she had to go back to Cape Town to finish shooting. We moved to Cape Town with her so that we're close by and when she needed to go shoot, I would stay with our daughter. She'd be gone from 5am at call time and come back around 8pm, tired. But it was during this time that my bond with our daughter grew very strong till now.' After working as hard as the couple have in the past few years for a stable future together, they now finally get to both enjoy the breeze of their second pregnancy, with less pressure from their careers. 'We recently moved into our new home. God has blessed us with so much work last year that we've gotten time to now just stay at home and spend time together as a family, bills are paid, things are covered and we're working on our next projects. I have a studio in the new house which means I can work all the time from home, we're just taking it all in, we don't have to work too much. It may come as a surprise to many that Priddy is still making music after he came out announcing the hanging of his mic last year. In all honesty, Priddy shares the decision was a result of not seeing eye-to-eye with his management and issues arising on the business side of music. Ever since then, he's had a revelation to return to his passion. 'We've been together for so long that we do everything together on a daily basis. The management tried as much as possible to keep us apart. We had a Youtube channel, we made music together as Rick Jade and had brand collaborations we shared. But they learned that it wasn't possible to separate us so now we're finally doing the things we've been putting off since covid and do them together now,' he beams. Excited to break the news of new music, he shares that the title sequence and songs used on Showmax's Adulting are a glimpse of his recent work. With these, he's teasing an album that could drop anytime as he awaits to welcome his second child.
IOL News
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
South Africa's amapiano has the world dancing
Dancer and choreographer Bontle Moloi, also known as Bontle Modiselle, centre, dances during an amapiano class at her dance studio in Johannesburg. Image: Michele Spatari / AFP AT A studio in central Johannesburg, dancers from various countries moved together to the rhythm of South Africa's amapiano sound that is taking social media by storm. With energy and purpose, they rehearsed a sequence in the style of the house music subgenre born on the streets of the townships around 15 years ago and now showcased by stars like Beyonce and Tyla. Soweto's Finest Dance Studio draws dancers of all kinds - from ballerinas to party-goers - to learn the amapiano moves sweeping the world through TikTok tutorials and challenges. Amapiano dance craze from South Africa goes global — CGTN Africa (@cgtnafrica) June 4, 2025 Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad loading Amapiano "is not about the words but you feel it inside of you," said Venus Chidinma, 25, a professional dancer from New York who studied at the studio for several weeks. "It doesn't matter where you come from, what race, what colour - you feel it and you have to just move. It's just from inside you," said the Harvard graduate. Central to the sound is the log drum, a distinctive bass that sets it apart from other forms of dance music. It blends soulful jazz and deep house with 1990s kwaito to create a local genre with no strict rules. The dance style mixes up others, from the coordinated quick steps of South African panstula to the "baleka" move that closely resembles Michael Jackson's iconic moonwalk. "Its authenticity to South Africa makes it stand out," said Thando Nhlapho, the 21-year-old professional dancer and choreographer at the landmark Soweto studio. Nhlapho, still glistening from her latest class, creates and posts dance videos on social media to "get my name out there". "I don't only dance to amapiano but I choose to use amapiano as a marketing strategy because it is now the trending thing, the hot thing globally," she said. Global language "Amapiano is so powerful, it's taken over Africa," said Emmanuel Mwenya, 25, a choreographer from Lusaka. "In Zambia, we dance and sing along to the music even though we do not understand the lyrics," said Mwenya, who spent a week in South Africa to learn the style. "We do amapiano but it's never original. So I thought I'd take the time to come here to learn something original," he said at the studio. Amapiano is its own language, said the professional dancer who also uses social media to promote his work. "Whether you speak Zulu, Bemba, Nyanja, English... it all connects, no matter where you're from." This spirit of inclusiveness comes to life on social media, where people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures unite in dance challenges, like the one for "Tshwala Bami" on TikTok that was taken up by US performer Jason Derulo. "My mom is 46 years old today and even at her age, I still teach her some TikTok dance challenges," said 21-year-old South African Snethemba Mathe, her face lit up. Grammy award winning South African musician Tyla. Image: Instagram Xiaoying Zhan, 30, brought three friends visiting from China with her to a class. Zhan, who is from China but now lives in South Africa, said she caught on to the amapiano beat during the Covid-19 lockdown around five years ago. "I was enjoying the music and that is why I started dancing to amapiano," she said. "The music has a lot of upbeat tempo," she said, listing South Africa's DBN Gogo and Uncle Waffles, originally from neighbouring Eswatini, as among her favourite artists, but only after Tyla.
