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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Season 11 (Weekdays at 7pm on 1Magic (DStv 103)

It’s the best season of the franchise in recent years and that’s thanks to the addition of actress and talk show host Garcelle Beauvais, Sutton Stracke, Kathy Hilton and even Crystal Kung Minkoff. They breath new life into the series and tackle serious and real topics, like racism, wealth and the legal drama of cast member, Erika Girardi.

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Afterlives (Abdulrazak Gurnah) The critically acclaimed latest novel by the Nobel Prize for literature winner is about Ilyas, who was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops when he was a boy. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. But what he doesn’t know is that he was betrayed and sold into war.

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Easy On Me (Adele)

The other queen of music is back and, after a six-year wait, it’s about time. Produced by Greg Kurstin, who previously collaborated with Adele on Hello, Water Under the Bridge and Million Years Ago, the track will probably be a number 1 hit. The song is inspired by her divorce and has verses that recall her fraught childhood, her lost marriage and the lessons learnt and unlearnt, about family, love and abandonment along the way.

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Maid (Netflix)

An audience favourite, Maid is about Alex who flees an abusive relationship and has to find a job. This leads her to becoming a domestic worker, cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child, Maddy and build them a better future. Margaret Qualley has received rave reviews for her nuanced portrayal of a woman in strife.