Music & Entertainment
The Ekurhuleni Music Workshop 2026 treated music as more than performance. It placed rights, royalties, distribution, media visibility, marketing and sustainability directly in the hands of emerging creators.
Warner Music Africa and Funk It Up turned Sognage into a Madonna universe for the Johannesburg launch celebration of Confessions II. Viranova was in the room for a night built on disco, dance, fashion and full pop devotion.
Jay Em’s iSOTTA is not just a seven-track house EP. It is a love letter to Gqeberha’s taxi routes, speaker culture, hometown memory and the people who helped local music travel before algorithms took over.
CowBoii’s iKati Elimhlophe asks a serious Amapiano question: can viral club momentum become a longer artistic arc, or does the feed always win?
Lady Zamar’s “First Class” refuses to make heartbreak heavy. Instead, it turns regret into movement, romance and the kind of lightness South African pop still needs.
Mi Casa’s 15-year milestone celebration was more than an anniversary party. By returning to the rooftop where the trio first met, the group turned memory, friendship and new music into a full-circle statement.
Before “world-building” became a pop-industry demand, Okmalumkoolkat’s Mlazi Milano had already built a strange, brilliant and fully coded South African universe.
The Joy’s “Precious” is more than a new single. It is a test of how far South African vocal harmony can travel into global pop without losing the ancestral weight that makes it powerful.
Thabsie’s While You Wait is more than a holdover EP. It is a quiet, independent rebrand that shows South African R&B comebacks do not have to arrive as loud commercial spectacles.
