"Dinner at Somizi's" is the story that's
gripped the nation with all the elements of a classic drama:
celebrity, intrigue, double crossing and that vital cog for any
narrative - intellectual property law.
What happened here was that in 2014, a man by the name of
Hastings Moeng approached a South African media star, Idols SA
judge Somizi Mhlongo, with an idea for a chat show that's also
a cooking show. An idea that had apparently been simmering in
Hastings' mind since 2010.
Hastings made his approach by way of email revealed to us by
Eusebius Mckaiser on, you guessed it, Twitter. "Hey Somizi,
how about a cooking/chat show called Dinner Kwa Somizi
('kwa' translating roughly as
'place', so Dinner at Somizi's
place). In this show you'll cook and talk to local celebrities
at the same time." Hastings made it all sound pretty exciting
- it'll be a show that "captures the drama that goes into
preparing each meal", one where "Somizi and his
guests sweat it out in the
