Trompies’ story reveals how true legends endure by evolving without losing their cultural centre
Thandiswa Mazwai celebrates 50 years and 30 years in music with the Sankofa Heritage Festival, blending heritage, innovation, and generational continuity
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Sobukwe film screened at jail where he was kept In celebration of Pan Africanist Congress founder Robert Sobukwe, who would have been 100 years old on 5 December, the…
The popularity of two Cape Town listening bars points to the need for more eclectic music spaces
The iconic brand has joined forces with SA icon Mandla Spikiri Mofokeng, aka The King Don Father
There was kwaito,and then there was Boom Shaka. We went in search of what it is about the group that made us fall so hard for them 30 years ago
Stunning show is a sonic exploration of a note written by the musician to the land of freedom centred around love and words
After several years out of the limelight, Kwesta hopes to rediscover his flair with an experimental new collaborative project.
Sound that has taken the world by storm is in danger of dying out in a lacklustre industry
Books by or about local musicians, the music business and the music scene
Jabba’s Back To The City performance in 2016 was a late-career triumph for the visionary MC, but its promise would prove elusive
Kwaito was born during South Africa’s transition to democracy and lives on as a kind of heritage
How we choose to dress is an instrument to communicate personal, race, class, gender and identity politics, as discussed in this extract from ‘Born to Kwaito’
J Bobs masterfully dismantles the highbrow/lowbrow binary in his theatre-making practice
“To remain relevant to the current generation, kwaito will need to shape-shift and reinvent itself akin to the evolution of hip-hop. “
Rapper K.O speaks about his creative process, his intentions with Skhanda and South African hip hop losing its identity.
We re-examine Lebo Mathosa’s legacy as a biopic about the singer’s life hits our screens
The originators insist that the cultural phenomenon has not died, it took new forms
Traces of Sandy B’s legacy, punctuated by a 1994 hit, are imprinted on the genre as we know it today
