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Shareholders of Twitter voted not to approve Egon Durban’s seat on the social media company’s board of directors at its annual meeting. Durban, the co-CEO and managing partner of Silver Lake, was one of two directors up for election today for a three-year term.

Netflix is gifting $1M to film and TV students in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Jennifer Yuma editorEndeavor Group Holdings has appointed technology executive Jacqueline Reses to its board of directors.The move expands the Endeavor board to eight members: Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell, Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban and managing director Stephen Evans, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Uncle Nearest CEO Fawn Weaver and former Xerox chief Ursula Burns. Reses, a Yahoo alum who is now CEO of tech-focused investment firm Post House Capital, marks the board’s fourth independent director.Reses was previously executive chair of Square Financial Services LLC and capital lead at Square, Inc.

Christopher Vourlias After deciding to shine the spotlight on digital disruption as the focus of this year’s Durban FilmMart, the leading industry confab on the African continent, there was an unsettling irony to the riots that swept across South Africa this July, prompting the organizers to postpone its 12th edition. “We ourselves were disrupted,” says Magdalene Reddy, acting general manager of the Durban FilmMart Institute.One month later, the DFM has finally raised the curtain on this year’s event, taking place online from Aug.

Christopher Vourlias Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to “I Am Here,” a documentary about 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal which recently won the Jury Prize at the Durban Film Festival.Directed by Jordy Sank, “I Am Here” tells Blumenthal’s incredible life story, starting with her youth in Poland during World War II, where she witnessed the Warsaw ghetto uprising and was a prisoner in the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

Two brothers accused of the biggest Bitcoin con in history bought themselves citizenship on Pacific island Vanuatu months before disappearing.

Endeavor Group Holdings has added Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox and telecom firm Veon, to its board of directors.

LL Cool J is planning a significant expansion of his Rock The Bells direct-to-consumer business. The actor and rapper has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round for Rock The Bells, led by Raine Ventures.

Sir Elton John is mourning the Covid death of a pioneering children’s HIV doctor who he met in South Africa.

Don't wait 30 years - sign up for our daily football email newsletter today!South African football legend Anele Ngcongca is said to have tragically passed away in a car crash..The 33-year-old suffered fatal injuries early this morning, reports in his native country say.Ngcongca most recently played for Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa's top flight but was known for making over 200 appearances for Belgian giants Genk over nine years.He also played 50 times for his country, including at the 2010 World Cup.Reports say he was in Durban to sign a one-year loan agreement with AmaZulu when the accident occurred.South African news outlet eNCA report that Ngcongca was 'thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene', while the female he was with is

Bongani Zungu followed up his impressive Premiership debut by getting on the scoresheet for South Africa on Friday night. Bafana Bafana saw off Sao Tome and Principe 2-0 in an African Cup of Nations qualifier at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.Zungu's former Mamelodi Sundowns team-mate Percy Tau broke the deadlock before the Light Blues midfielder came off the bench.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA 34-year-old man allegedly abducted and raped a teenager before claiming he wanted to “spoil her” for her 13th birthday.The teen victim was found more than 100 miles from her home after she was reportedly snatched from her family on Tuesday.A private security firm found the suspect and the 13-year-old girl in the city of Richards Bay in South Africa.The 34-year-old allegedly abducted the girl and took her to a family home in the city of Durban.He reportedly told security guards he wanted to “spoil” the teen for her birthday.The man, a dad-of-four himself, claimed the girl’s parents had been verbally abusive to her.Police have confirmed

A 34-year-old man who allegedly abducted and raped a teenage girl said he wanted to 'spoil her' for her birthday, it is claimed.

Christopher Vourlias Even before coronavirus arrived in South Africa, which ranks among the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, Durban FilmMart head Toni Monty had already begun to envision how sub-Saharan Africa’s leading industry confab would have to adapt to an unprecedented global crisis.“Not one of us on the team have actually seen each other physically since Berlin,” she said. “It’s like you’re organizing a wedding in the middle of a global crisis.” Still, Monty never had any doubt that the DFM would take place in some form this year, calling it “the right thing to do.” “We have to keep the conversations going.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA deadly black mamba snake shocked beachgoers after it was spotted swimming in the surf on a busy beach in South Africa.

animal being handled by vets, who realise quickly that she is beyond help and cannot possibly survive in the wild in Durban.

With lockdown now in full swing, and rumblings in corners of the internet that an extension of the stay-at-home order may be on the cards, the Coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on our collective psyche and way of life. We all need to grab whatever emotional pick-me-up we can find – and, WOW, did we find one recently.

Last month, hitmakers Sketchy Bongo and Locnville reunited for their brand-new single ’95 Skyline’ – the highly-anticipated follow-up to their smash hit ‘Cold Shoulder’. The track has been racing up radio charts around the country since its release and now, the stars have dropped an epic music video to accompany the track.

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause havoc around the globe, local governments are putting preventative measures into play as the world tries to lessen the number of transmissions and infections. In South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed last night that public gatherings of over 100 people are officially banned and, with that, Bebe Winans has decided to postpone his 2020 tour of South Africa.

Twitter has reached a settlement with activist investor Elliott Management that includes tech investor Silver Lake taking a $1 billion stake in the social media giant and co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey remaining at the helm, at least for now. Twitter also inked a cooperation agreement with Elliott Management that will see Silver Lake’s investment, together with cash on hand, fund a $2 billion share repurchase program.

Jack Dorsey will continue at helm of Twitter after the company reached an agreement with activist investor that had been potentially looking to oust the social network’s co-founder.