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South African culture, documented in motion.
A plain-language map of composition, recording, performance, mechanical, digital and needletime royalty streams in South Africa.
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.
Concerts SA’s Music Cities Award is bigger than an international accolade. It is recognition of the invisible systems, routes, venues and relationships that make live music possible.
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.
CAPASSO has opened a new CSI call, inviting members to submit funding proposals for projects rooted in education, empowerment and long-term growth across South Africa’s music ecosystem.
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.
Africa Rising Music Conference 2026 matters because it focuses on the systems behind the sound: publishing, technology, cross-border collaboration, artist protection, and the infrastructure African music needs to survive global attention.
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.
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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 funds 10 music-development projects, showing why South African creators need music rights education, publishing knowledge and ownership literacy earlier.
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Concerts SA and IKS Cultural Consulting’s 2026 Music Cities Award highlights the infrastructure, mobility and live-music ecosystems that sustain South African music.
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