Cape Argus 2022-05-16

Renowned South African DJ and record producer Mark Stent has found an innovative solution to address the contentious issue of royalties in South Africa. Through his new platform, the Music Audit Usage System (Maus), Stent now offers a simple way for composers, artists, labels and publishers to track airplay and the proceeds due to them. “There are various royalties that could make for a great financial injection, but the fact is that deserving people in the industry, from those just starting out to highly experienced professionals, lose anything from a couple of hundred rands to thousands, simply because they don’t know, or efficiently track, exactly what is owed to them,” he said. Stent, who is also a chartered statistician and mathematician, says he wants to ensure that the local music…

Rosamund Pike, pictured, is to star in Emerald Fennell’s new film. The 43-year-old actress has been tipped to lead the cast of the Oscar winner’s second feature film following the success of her debut effort Promising Young Woman. Few details are known about the new project, but insiders say it will be titled Saltburn, and is about an aristocratic English family. Fennell is familiar with the world after portraying Camilla Parker Bowles in the Netflix series The Crown. Filming on the project is due to start later this year. The film-maker won an Oscar for Promising Young Woman and was also nominated for the best director and best picture Academy Awards. Meanwhile, Pike has also landed the lead role in Rich Flu. The coming movie is being directed by Spanish…

Not too long ago, DJ Choc, the father of amapiano vocalist Lady Du, put out a scathing video in which he criticised his daughter for claiming she had grown up poor. In part of the video, he said: “I don’t know what Lady Du is talking about when she says she grew up poor. I worked hard and did everything for her in the world.” He continued: “She then went and h*** around and ate money with all these men, and she continues to spend money on these men. What is she doing now? “She did not grow up poor. She had everything she needed. She is who she is because of me.” In his “apology” statement shared on his Instagram, he explained that the video was originally sent to…

Heathfield High School principal Wesley Neumann, who was sanctioned with dismissal after the loss of his disciplinary hearing, is weighing up prospects for a review of the Western Cape Department of Education’s (WCED) dismissal of his appeal. Neumann has until Friday to decide whether he will accept a demotion to head of department as an alternative to his sanctioned dismissal after former education MEC Debbie Schäfer dismissed his appeal on five charges and acquitted him of assault. Neumann was sanctioned with dismissal in October last year when he was found guilty of six charges of misconduct as a result of a disciplinary process after his refusal to reopen the school amid the Covid-19 infection peak in 2020. Schäfer upheld presiding officer Ronélle Raubenheimer’s finding of guilt on the following charges…

‘Badly worded’ by-law notice causes offence THE City has come under fire for continually targeting places of worship after a noise nuisance notice was issued to Mughammaddiyah Masjid on Tennyson Street in Salt River. The letter, dated May 12, quotes the Provincial Noise Control Regulations and demands the mosque to immediately mitigate the amplified sound after the City’s Noise Control Administration office received a complaint about noise from the premises. This came despite an undertaking by the City that the “noise nuisances” section of the Streets, Public Places, and Prevention of Noise Nuisances By-Law would not apply to places of worship operating within appropriate zoning after it updated its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) last month. Muslim Judicial Council Second Deputy President Sheikh Riad Fataar said after the letter was issued,…

FIVE family members, including two children aged four and five, were killed in a fire in the France Informal Settlement in Site B, Khayelitsha. The fire is said to have occurred at about 4.30am yesterday. After it was doused, firefighters recovered the bodies of 53-year-old Nosimpiwe Tafeni, her daughter Aphelele Tafeni, 17, her grandchildren Nkazimlo Tafeni, 5, and Melokuhle, 4, and an unknown person only known as Zakhele, 30. Nosimpmiwo’s sister, Ntombizanele Gqomfa, said that since learning of her sister’s and niece’s deaths she has been shocked and devastated. “My sister was in the process of divorcing her husband. She had just recently moved into that shack to live her life. None of us ever thought she would meet such a terrible end in it.” Gqomfa said her sister’s daughter,…