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‘Electronic, less housey’: Nthato Mokgata, aka Spoek Mathambo. (Florian Spring)

Labours of love: A movie, music, a novel – oh, and a baby

Multi-talented filmmakers Carla Fonseca Mokgata and Nthato Mokgata are making history with their romantic comedy

Is this the beginning of the end of all human-created art? This is the question implied by Vulane Mthembu’s AI album Nguni Machina. (Photo by: Kgune Dlamini)

Umshini uyakhuluma: Technology encroaches on the human touch in Nguni Machina

The metric of success for Vulane Mthembu’s Nguni Machina won’t be how many people stream it, but if listeners can’t tell if the music was made by artificial intelligence

Bhekisenzo “Vukazithathe” Cele is the subject of a new documentary by Standard Bank Young Artist for Music Nthato Mokgata
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Review: ‘Vukazithathe’, a portrait of the maskandi artist as a mentor and friend

Nthato Mokgata’s documentary ‘Vukazithate’, showing online at the National Arts Festival, tells an intimate story of his mentor and maskandi legend, Bhekisenzo “Vukazithathe” Cele

Langa Mavuso: Unpacking the not-so-rosy side of romance. 
Photo: Jonathan Ferreira

The voice: Langa Mavuso

Drawing on his own experiences, Langa Mavuso soulfully unpacks the not-so-rosy side of romance, tackling issues of loss and betrayal.

Heritage and creative licence combine in Morena Leraba’s carefully cultivated shepherd persona

Shepherd makes famo his own

Morena Leraba’s sounds may not be cogent, but he is retracing a tradition in a rapid high-tech age

Spoek Mathambo performing at Bassline in Newtown

​What does foreign validation of SA music really count for?

The need for cosigns from non-Africans is a long-standing feature of the South African music industry that undermines our artists’ capabilities.

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Cape Town Nu World Festival promises more cultural and musical diversity

The Cape Town World Music Festival returns to the music calendar with a new name and a clearer focus.

Africa’s space oddities are transformed into fetishes

A peek into the enigma that is Afrofuturism shows differing views – from patronising to progressive of what it means to be black in the 21st century.

Wired for sound: Spoek Mathambo on his tour to discover indigenous African sounds.

Future sounds mine the past

Spoek Mathambo explores the ancient music of the San and gets hip to maskandi for his latest project.

Musician Spoek Mathambo’s ode to modern,? futuristic women

Spoek Mathambo’s new video has taken a bit of a detour from his usual brand of "dark and edgy", as director Fausto Becatti terms it.

Spoek Mathambo: Afro-futurism’s heir apparent

Spoek Mathambo: Afro-futurism’s heir apparent

The Future Sound of Mzansi is a compilation album of rarities, remixes and collaborations that will be distributed across the continent.

Spoek Mathambo talks to the M&G about his latest release

Spoek Mathambo: Beyond Afro-futurism

Spoek Mathambo talks to the M&G about his latest release, his position in the SA music industry and an upcoming collaboration with Gorillaz.

There’s a Spoek on my stoep

There’s a Spoek on my stoep

Dubbed this year’s Die Antwoord, Spoek ­Mathambo’s sound is uncategorically South African.

I’m not the king

I’m not the king, fumes Spoek

Spoek Mathambo was not happy with the way he was portrayed in a recent <i>Guardian</i> story.

I’m not the king

Speaking the kwaito language

Spoek Mathambo takes <b>Melissa Bradshaw </b> back to kwaito’s roots.

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Pieter Hugo wins Young Director Award at Cannes

South African photographers Pieter Hugo and Michael Cleary have won an award for their music video for Spoek Mathambo’s <i>Control</i>.

A new chapter

Starting over is like reapplying your skin layer by layer — it’s what João Orecchia has done on his new album.