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South Africa bags 4 Africa Movie Academy Awards

Cape Town – African movie stars were celebrated this weekend at the 2016 Africa Movie Academy Awards in Nigeria. 

The ceremony was held at the Obi Wali International Conference Center in Port Hacourt.

South African stars shined bright bagging 4 wins from their 23 nominations. 

Fulu Mugovhani won Best Actress in a Leading Role for Ayanda

The actress took to Instagram to express her gratitude and honour on winning.  

The romantic comedy Tell Me Sweet Something won two awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Achievement in Screenplay.

#tellmesweetsomething #amaa2016?? #internationalplayerwithapassport #thugthespian

A photo posted by Thomas Gumede (@thomasgumede) on

And the dance movie Hear Me Move walked away with Achievement in Editing. 

And We had Plenty of love to give Nigeria at the @amaawards_ with the Lovely miss Mbatha Le'Go!!!

A photo posted by Nyaniso Ntsikelelo Dzedze (@nyanison) on

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