CAPASSO’s inaugural CSI Programme funds 10 music-development projects, showing why South African creators need music rights education, publishing knowledge and ownership literacy earlier.
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CAPASSO’s inaugural CSI Programme is not just funding music projects. It is investing in the floorboards of the industry: education, rights literacy, entrepreneurship, community upliftment and the knowledge creators need before the song travels.
Benjamin Dube’s Sony Music Entertainment Africa partnership is more than a distribution deal. It shows how South African gospel catalogues can become legacy assets with long-term cultural and commercial value.
Sakhele Mzalazala’s What is Copyright? Our Song is more than a children’s book. It is an early intervention in a music industry where too many creatives only learn about ownership after the damage is done.
SAMRO and Music Business Lab’s graduation of 50 music entrepreneurs is a reminder that South African music’s future is not only built in studios and on stages. It is also built through publishing knowledge, rights management and business education.
Zakes Bantwini’s foundation signals a bigger shift in South African celebrity culture: influence is no longer only about fame, but about the systems artists build for those coming after them.
Oskido’s national honour reminds South Africa that kwaito was never just about the party. It was ownership, infrastructure, youth enterprise and township creativity turned into a cultural economy.
South African music is travelling across the world, but visibility is not the same as wealth. The next battle is ownership, paperwork, publishing and making sure creators keep a fair share of the money.
