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Five years after its release, Amanda Black’s Mnyama offers a more meaningful measure of musical success: not how loudly an album arrives, but whether listeners still have reasons to return when the campaign is over.
11 Aug 20264 min read
Before the lights come up at the Sun City Superbowl, SAMA32’s women-led production, communications, logistics and operations teams are building the machinery that allows the awards night to exist.
11 Aug 20267 min read
Echoes Of Botanical Gardens is more than a one-off collaboration. Across seven tracks, Skye Wanda and Zakes Bantwini turn proven studio chemistry into a complete Afro-house world.
11 Aug 20265 min read
At Basadi in Music Awards 2026, Anele Zondo occupied two positions at once: returning as part of the platform’s host history while also appearing in the Hip-Hop Artist of the Year category as Ney The Bae.
11 Aug 20262 min read
With “Bring On The Night,” J’Something, !Sooks and King Dashnote do more than revisit a deep-house favourite. They treat memory as something alive, giving one of South Africa’s treasured dancefloor records a new voice, a new atmosphere and a new emotional life.
07 Aug 20264 min read
The Johannesburg five-piece are channelling the clarity that follows a breakup into a bright, self-assured single and advancing their vision for a distinctly African expression of global pop.
07 Aug 20265 min read
Thato Raphadi’s rise is not the story of one sudden hit. It is the story of a voice becoming recognisable across amapiano’s most powerful collaborative circuits.
04 Aug 20264 min read
As Basadi in Music Awards marks its fifth edition, REWIND turns the ceremony’s previous themes, hosts and milestones into a living archive of women shaping South African music.
04 Aug 20264 min read
Inspired by the orchestral world of August Rush, the Krugersdorp-born producer brings cinematic emotion into the rhythmic language of 3-Step.
31 Jul 20263 min read
On Scatterlings: Johnny Clegg Reimagined, a new generation of South African artists does more than revisit an iconic catalogue. It enters into conversation with it.
30 Jul 20266 min read
On his new single, “Human,” Espacio Dios steps away from the noise of ambition and constant movement to consider the love, presence and purpose that make a life meaningful.
30 Jul 20266 min read
Created between the Garden Route, Berlin and Los Angeles, Sickluv and Dominic Neill’s new collaboration reflects a South African music industry no longer confined by geography.
29 Jul 20263 min read
As she opens Jazz at Jozi Gold’s Women’s Month programme, Maleh brings Dithapelo into an intimate Braamfontein room, presenting a new creative chapter shaped by faith, restoration and emotional connection.
28 Jul 20265 min read
Tyla’s second album treats African pop not as the opposite of global pop, but as one of the places from which global pop can now be defined.
25 Jul 20267 min read
After a decade of public tension with the South African Music Awards, Cassper Nyovest will co-host SAMA32 with Zanele Potelwa at the Sun City Superbowl.
25 Jul 20263 min read
Ahead of his intimate performance at Jazz at Jozi Gold, Vusi Mahlasela reflects on healing through music, the responsibility of being “The Voice” and the questions shaping his forthcoming album.
23 Jul 20267 min read
Lordkez’s On The Radar performance places South African alternative R&B inside one of New York’s most recognisable music-performance spaces without forcing her to abandon the sound she built at home.
20 Jul 20262 min read
ZuluMecca’s “7 Colours” brings Priddy Ugly and Loatinover Pounds to the same table, turning a familiar South African food metaphor into a sharp collaboration between three distinct rap identities.
20 Jul 20262 min read