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Music · Mainstream
Easy Freak Went Back to 2016 to Find the Song That Points to Their Future
5 min read · 24 Aug 2026
Music · Tastemaker
TheLastLetter Turns a Lover’s Drunken Switch Into R&B on “Jaded”
3 min read · 24 Aug 2026
Entertainment · Culture Shaper
Durban FilmMart 2026 Is Asking South Africa’s Film Industry to Look Inward
5 min read · 24 Aug 2026
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“Only Like You Do” began as a slow acoustic song when Easy Freak were just getting started. A decade later, Dom Hurd and Jude Kenrick have rebuilt it with groove, live instrumentation and the confidence of the band they have become.
24 Aug 20265 min read
Featuring Indigo Stella, with additional vocals from Rashè and production by Wichi1080, “Jaded” takes TheLastLetter back towards the R&B roots of her earliest work through a relationship where intoxication seems to reveal a completely different person.
24 Aug 20263 min read
From AI and funding uncertainty to performer ownership and the future of documentary, Durban FilmMart’s SA in Focus programme is putting some of South Africa’s most difficult screen-industry questions on the table.
24 Aug 20265 min read
Nico Scheepers’ intimate family drama collected seven awards across the 2026 Silwerskerm ceremonies, while Rian van Heerden completed a remarkable three-award sweep across three different television formats.
23 Aug 20265 min read
Within a day of Gentlewoman arriving, “I Only Look to You”, “Sweet Thing” and the title track were all inside Apple Music South Africa’s Top 10 — a striking response to music that succeeds through warmth, space and restraint rather than spectacle.
22 Aug 20266 min read
The original was already one of South Africa’s biggest hip-hop records. Then Nasty C’s unofficial C-Mix crossed one million YouTube views. By the time the official remix arrived, audiences had already made the case for it.
22 Aug 20261 min read
Four days after Scebi “Inkos’Yamagcokama” Dlamini’s death, “Lashona Ilanga” arrived. Within days, the Limit Nala and Sne Ntuli collaboration was No.1 on Spotify South Africa and leading YouTube’s local trending charts — powered by something algorithms cannot manufacture from scratch: community.
22 Aug 20266 min read
The London documentary company behind Free Nelson Mandela is establishing its first permanent international base in Johannesburg, with links to Cape Town — another sign that South Africa is being seen as more than somewhere international productions simply arrive to shoot.
22 Aug 20266 min read
Their recorded relationship stretches from Vusi Mahlasela’s Naledi Ya Tsela in 2006 to Guy Buttery’s self-titled album a decade later. This September, two South African musical histories finally meet onstage.
22 Aug 20261 min read
Chris Q. Radebe financed Shut Up! Men Are Talking himself, built an audience online and kept ownership of the project. Now Movie Room has acquired the film for television — after the audience had already said yes.
22 Aug 20262 min read
Due on 28 August, We Will Dance turns a difficult personal season into Afro House, Afro Tech and soulful dance built around faith, resilience and the decision to keep moving.
22 Aug 20261 min read
From Davido on “Yebo” and “Nakupenda” to possible future work with Wizkid and Jorja Smith, TXC’s international collaborations increasingly look less like outside validation and more like artists entering a South African musical world the duo already knows how to lead.
22 Aug 20261 min read
Season 4 of Izingane zeS’thembu turns the Mseleku family’s accumulating relationships, conflicts and history into something that sits naturally between reality television and the momentum of a family telenovela.
22 Aug 20261 min read
Under the banner Next Up: Africa’s Creative Future, Viranova will join FAME Week Africa 2026 in Cape Town to document the people, ideas and cultural moments shaping the continent’s next creative era.
21 Aug 20262 min read
Days after You, Me & The 90’s won Best R&B/Soul Album at SAMA32, lordkez links with Kwesta on “4SHO” — a collaboration that feels less like a victory lap than the beginning of something bigger.
21 Aug 20264 min read
From The Rookie and Judging Amy to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Richard T. Jones has spent more than three decades moving across television genres. This September, South African fans get to meet him in Johannesburg.
20 Aug 20263 min read
On uMgaranto II, K.Keed and Orish turn isiXhosa storytelling, township humour, old South African advertising and the texture of growing up in the kasi into a record that treats local memory as something worth archiving.
19 Aug 20266 min read
For the Zimbabwean-born, South Africa-raised singer-songwriter, “run boy” was once connected to fear and survival. His new single turns those words into an intimate meditation on movement, belonging and the decision to keep going.
19 Aug 20263 min read