NEW YEAR, NEW START — SAME QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT! JAN 2019 ISSUE #1 Because Life Is About Second Chances YOUR IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PLANNER TO A FULFILLED AND RELAXED FLIGHT REMOTE REMOTE CONTROL HANDSET FOR AIRBUS A340-600 / 300 Games and Menus Laptop power is available at every seat in Business Class on board of the Airbus A340-600, A340-300 and A330-200. 15 Off 110V Audio Wait PC Power On 60Hz The sockets are designed for: 2-pin European plugs 2 or 3-pin USA plugs Other types/ varieties of plugs will require an appropriate adaptor. The power supply outlets are intended for Laptops and other portable electronic devices only. 110V-240Vac 50-60Hz, max 75W to 100W per seat subject to aircraft type. Recommendations for optimum laptop use: when PC is completely flat, remove battery to run the PC as the power requirement will be too high on a device with a completely flat battery. 18 Be Entertained IN THE JANUARY ISSUE South African Airways is proud to offer its passengers a wide selection of movies, TV programmes and music tunes to keep you entertained throughout your flight. Young or old, you will enjoy the latest comedy shows and fun kids programming, while for the more discerning tastes, we offer a fine variety of Wildlife, Business and Sport reports with a mix of our Worldwide and Asian titles. Besides the latest Blockbusters and old favourites, SAA continuously expands the African choice to support our local talent and provide other nationals with a glimpse into the heart of our nation. We invite you to sit back and relax while we take care of everything else. Refer to the inside back cover for assistance using your remote. 04 13 06 CONTENTS 04 January Highlights 15 Asian Collection 05 Interview 16 TV Series 07 New Releases 18 TV Features 09 African Choice 19 Music 10 Film Collection 20 Radio 13 Kids’ Choice 21 Audio On Demand 09 14 Worldwide 22 Games AIRSCAPE | 3 JANUARY Highlights However, if you’d much prefer something that will have you gripping the edge of your seat (be careful not rattle your neighbour!), then allow us to suggest Peppermint,Venom, Bad Times at the El Royale or The House with a Clock In Its Walls. The tear-jerking title that is Lion will remind you how fortunate you are to still have loved ones in your midst. There’s nothing like the start of the Our freshly loaded audio selection New Year to remind us to dust off old boasts everything from classical music, ambitions, imagine a new future with an African playlist curated by one of the endless opportunities and gear up for best on the continent, Dj Waxxy to jazz, VENOM making new choices. Whatever you’re rock and opera. Yep, you can literally yearning for in 2019, may it be granted have a party at your seat! to you in a million fold. DON’T LEAVE WITHOUT… To mark the start of this new chapter, Envisioning how you want the rest of we’re welcoming you aboard our flights your 2019 to pan out. We have newly- and into the New Year with an additional added audiobooks from renowned 31 new film titles across our different authors like Deepak Chopra and categories. Our favourite part of Hesketh Pearson whose insights can “Cheers To A New Year And putting together every issue of Airscape help you with this task. In between is introducing you to both old and new our great entertainment, perhaps start creatives in our interviews section. This working on your vision board, and ANOTHER CHANCE FOR month, we feature Zimbabwean-born should you get tired of all that arduous and South Africa-based artist Berita, thinking, there are plenty new episodes US TO GET IT RIGHT.” whose music career spans over seven and newest additions to our series years, and is bound to soar from here collection — Modern Family, This Is Us, OPRAH WINFREY onwards. We invite you to immerse Black Lightning, The Orville, Splitting Up yourself in her music — featured in our Together and Lethal Weapon — to re- newly-updated audio section — and energise you! Yes, a binge-fest awaits. discover what makes her an indomitable force on page 5 and 6. Here’s to a prosperous 2019 to you and yours. May it be characterised WE RECOMMEND… by steadfast hope, many more travel That you adjust your seat and enjoy adventures and happy memories! a film like Juliet, Naked, which is essentially a story of second chances. See you on your next trip! How fiiting for the New Year? AIRSCAPE | 4 The STORY of a guitar-crazy girl If Berita’s musical journey could be documented into a book, the title would probably read something along the lines of ‘Berita And Her Guitar’. The largely acoustic and proudly South African artist shares her New Year plans and how she intends to take more of her music to the world. What have you been up to musically? Tell us about your relationship with your 2018 was my year for travelling and performing live, especially around the African guitar — would you ever be able to make music continent. I started with a southern Africa tour to Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, without it? Mozambique, Lesotho and a bit of South Africa. That was followed by an East Africa I love that with my guitar in hand, I can literally tour, covering Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. I’ve always known that I wanted my music perform anywhere. It doesn’t matter whether to be global, which is why I welcomed the travel opportunities with open arms. This I’m amplified or not because it offers instant dream was inspired by the late Miriam Makeba whose music was multilingual which, in accompaniement to my music. I hold my guitar turn, made it that much more relatable wherever she performed in the world. very close to my heart. AIRSCAPE | 5 You just returned from performing in Indiana, your first trip beyond the African borders. What was that experience like? “I’ve always known I was invited to perform at a concert titled Songs For Hope by an organisation called that I wanted my music Arts For Aids, whose aim is to raise funds for southern Africa. It was held at Indiana to be global, which is University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a public research institution. My music was received so well that there’s now interest in me returning this year sometime why I welcomed the to perform at a few more univeristies. I enjoyed performing to a crowd that didn’t travel opportunities understand the languages in which my lyrics were written, but were still very receptive with open arms.” of the music. What are you mostly looking forward to in 2019? Which artist, both living or dead, would you like to I’m quite amped about the musical project I’m working on. After last year’s many live collaborate with in the future? performances, I’m looking forward to growing as a singer and songwriter as well as more A Kenyan afro-pop boy band by the name of Sauti Soul. musical tours. They are great performers, plus their music is universal yet proudly African. In South Africa, it definitely has to be the What have been some of your biggest career highlights since starting out in music? musical genius that is Samthing Soweto. What’s important for me, is to always write music that will resonate with audiences. I enjoy taking people on a musical journey and inspiring them through song. I live for What’s inspiring your music right now? those moments where people share how they got engaded to one of my songs, or how More than anything, I’m inspired by honesty. Having my music helped them survive a rough patch. Once, I had a couple tell me that they travelled the continent vastly in the past year, I reaslied that named their child after one of my singles, Thandolwethu. the songs that best resonated with audiences were those where I lay my soul bare. The songs were about who I am at Who is Berita away from the glaring lights of fame? my core, as well as my contribution to the world. So, Berita is my mother’s name which I use as a stage name. My real name is Gugulethu Khumalo. I generally love people and enjoy spending time with loved ones over a What venue do you dream of performing in? homecooked meal. Whenever people ask me where home is, I tell them that I have It’s undoubtedly the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York a couple of them. For work purposes, I spend a lot of time in Johannesburg. I visit City, which also happens to be one of the most revered Bulawayo in Zimbabwe often because I was born there, and my grandmother is still venues in the world. I’m drawn to performing in spaces based there. When we first moved to South Africa, we settled in the Eastern Cape, and where the audience is within reach, and you can easily share I attended school in East London. I spend most of my December holidays in that part of intimate moments with them. I generally love performing in the country because I still have a lot of family there. Lastly, it’s New Zealand — where theatres because they carry a wealth of heritage with them my parents are berry farmers. — the actually remind me of churches. AIRSCAPE | 6 NEW RELEASES Juliet, Naked Juliet, Naked is “everything a romcom should be but no longer is” — that’s how entertainment website vulture.com described this New Age love triangle with no nudity, even though the film’s title suggests such.