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The 21st Cape Town based international Jazz festival is returning in March 2023, after a three year absence.

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival makes it’s return

The 21st Cape Town based international Jazz festival is returning in March 2023, after a three year absence

Starstruck: Sho Madjozi could not believe her luck when Thomas Chauke, whom she calls a ‘human library’, agreed to work with her, a feeling she articulates in the song Shahumba. Photo: Sho Madjozi

Tsonga mixtape with love from Sho Madjozi

Sho Madjozi’s latest mixtape honours her Xitsonga roots – and Thomas Chauke approves

Former international Liberian football star turned politician George Weah, greets his supporters during a campaign rally in Monrovia in 2017. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images)

Soundtrack to a pandemic: Africa’s best coronavirus songs

Drawing on lessons from Ebola, African artists are using music to convey public health messaging. And they are doing it in style

Considering that the Sho Madjozi persona is barely three years old
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Sho Madjozi and the art of being seen

Using her unique style and image, she’s taking her pan-African music and brand and making them internationally palatable

A seat at the table: Solange will perform at Afropunk 2019

Have fun this festive season

For good vibes and an arts fix, don’t miss this

The mental health of all those back at school are at stake. (Sachin Aurakeasamy)

How Busiswa’s conversational story “wrote itself”

Busiswa: An Unbreakable Story unfolds like a conversation between Busiswa and the viewer.

Versatile: In her debut album, Sho Madjozi showcases her genre and linguistic range. Photo: Supplied

Madjozi a village girl for real?

The singer has brought Xitsonga pop to the fore, but she draws from a long line of celebrated artists

Sho Madjozi may be the first millennial rapping in Xitsonga, but others came before her

Sho Madjozi’s musical lineage is larger than large

"Sho Madjozi is alive to the marginal condition of Venda and Shangaan languages in the Zulu-Xhosa-dominated Afro-pop culture in Mzansi."

“That was just a beginning — the list is long. Some people have left the company, but we will be pursuing them and possibly lay charges if it is found that there was criminal intent,” said Popo Molefe. (Gallo)

Playing the Fool at eSwatini Festival

Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi explores the strides the Bushfire Festival has made now that it’s in its twelfth edition

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On our Lists this week: Africa is a Country, Philip Tabane, and Sho Madjozi

In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches.