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CASTER Semenya is officially the biggest winner this year. The Olympic gold medallist who excelled at the Rio Olympics earlier this year, last night became the biggest winner at the eighth annual Feather Awards – nabbing the role model and sports personality of the year awards. This comes after Semenya scooped an Athlete of the Year award at the Gsport Award in August, which was followed by a personality of the year gong which she scored at the MTV Africa Music Awards last month. Hosted at the Kyalami Theatre on the Track by television personalities Lumko Johnson and Khanya Mkhangisa, the Feather Awards are ceremony from the LGBTI community which aim to celebrate public figures who empower and captivate them. For the first time since their existence, the winners were chosen by the public who have been voting for their favourites. Best styled female went to Black Coffee’s wife and   Rockville   actress Mbali Mlotswa who beat personalities Bonang Matheba and Dineo Moe...

Gorgeous actress, TV presenter, model and girl-about-town Amanda du-Pont has a stylish new gig as the co-presenter on BET A-List . Amanda will be co-hosting the weekly entertainment and lifestyle magazine show with Ayanda Thabethe for the next three months, shooting segments with A-listers and celebrities from across the continent.  She steps into the stilettos of pregnant Nandi Madida who taped her last episode last week before heading off on maternity leave.  Ayanda and Amanda will keep audiences captivated weekly with the latest trends from around the African continent and abroad, unpacking everything from fashion, to music, movies and more, covering the hottest red carpet events and interviewing A-Listers from home and abroad. Amanda spent her first day shooting at Endemol Shine Studios in Randburg on 10 November, and her first episode of BET A-List will premiere on BET on Thursday 17 November at 18:35 CAT.  Highlights from the episode will includ...

Nandi Madida and Ayanda Thabethe hosts of the BET A-List show on BET. PICTURES: Ouparazzi Entertainment channel BET (DStv channel 129) has revealed its definitive list of 2016’s top 20 South African movers and shakers, The BET A-List . The honourees of the inaugural The BET A-list were revealed by BET A-List hosts Nandi Madida and Ayanda Thabethe on Wednesday night at a star-studded event in the Arcadia Ballroom, The Four Seasons Hotel, Johannesburg. Connie and Shona Ferguson. PICTURE: Ouparazzi South Africa’s sporting heroes led the field, scoring honours for both Caster Semenya and Wayde van Niekerk .   The creative arts also scored high as director Thabang Moleya and novelist, poet and playwright Zakes Mda were recognised by BET , along with actress Terry Pheto and TV/film producers Shona & Connie Ferguson, who made the list as Game Changers (TV/Film ).   DJ Black Coffee and his wife, actress Mbali Mlotshwa. PICTURE: Ouparazzi  Ido...