Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
With a deluxe edition of her latest album on the way and a milestone performance only days away, Nanette is ready to step into the next stage of her ascendancy
Fifty years ago, disco started having an impact. Its influence was felt even in apartheid South Africa
The singer will pay homage to legendary artists such as ‘Mama Africa’ and Brenda Fassie
The X-word gets trotted out like a beauty pageant contestant to dismiss legitimate border control issues
The song breaks away from his normal style and rolls back the years
Yeoville in 1994 was the radical, hedonistic heart of South African creativity. Thirty years later, Carlos Amato asked some of its denizens what the dream meant – and where it went
Where does Workers’ Day come from? Why do we have weekends? What should we listen to on weekends? And why is Brenda Fassie’s first hit song essential for your weekend?
Lensman Mbuzeni Zulu’s subjects ranged from black popular culture to bloody unrest
Dive into the South African Music Awards’ history to see how far SA music has come and where it might be headed to
Books by or about local musicians, the music business and the music scene
The untimely passing of Kuli Roberts, gossip columnist du jour of post-apartheid’s Gilded Age, shocked the nation. Bongani Madondo, who first encountered her earlier in her…
Gallo retraces its steps for new gold in its legacy project series Gallo Remixed
Koleka Putuma’s triumphant adaptation allows audience to see stagecraft influence poetry
The Jazz Expressions concert in level one lockdown was a reaquaintance with friends, music and jazz photography
The artist Nakhane is fatigued by the idea that lifestyle choices are ‘other people’s business’
The poet’s new book does the necessary work of reinscribing women into history, but is it poetry
When news of the passing of one of SA’s most iconic musicians broke, Bongani Madondo revisited his songbook and located him in the global pantheon of the greatest vocalists, ever
The award-winning music icon and humanitarian Yvonne ‘Princess of Africa’ Chaka Chaka speaks to Ntombizodwa Makhoba on being a strict gogo to her three adorable grandchildren,…
South African artists found a musical identity and a way to code political messages in the anxious 80s
