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With “Khuthaza Abafwethu” and their six-track EP 2BDI1R, Soweto duo Ndibzar and Lendas are building Amapiano around a simple idea: surviving the hustle means encouraging the people beside you, not only chasing success for yourself.
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InterviewsSAI HLE Are Growing Into ThemselvesFrom writing through fear by the sea in Spain to standing before a symphonic orchestra back home, Amahle and Siphosethu Koom are learning that becoming SAI HLE is not only about how far the music can travel. It is also about becoming the women they once only imagined.
MusicEzra Collective Turn Jubilee Into a Dancefloor Language on “Jubilee Feeling”Following their South African festival appearance in Franschhoek, the London quintet fold UK jazz, funky house and Black diasporic memory into a song about release, renewal and the radical possibilities of joy.
The Johannesburg filmmakers behind Shadow, In Your Dreams and The Nowhere Man have opened a virtual production studio built around an increasingly important idea: advanced technology means more when the people operating it also know how to tell the story.Motion Story Wants Virtual Production in Africa to Be More Than an LED Wall
CultureOkuhle and Anele Lushaba Turn “Wangishaya” Into a Song About the Violence Love Should Never Become
CultureFAME Week Africa 2026 Shows Cape Town Wants to Be Africa’s Creative Business Room
DispatchMusicAsakhe Mtshisazwe Is Making Music From the Place Where Faith and Identity CollideRead story ↗DispatchCultureFrance Is Bringing Buyers, Co-Productions and Creative Capital to FAME Week Africa 2026Read story ↗
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