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After years apart in London and Amsterdam, Martin Kabamba and Riccardo Amatucci have revived the Johannesburg-born electronic project with “Holiday” — a song from their early catalogue that never entirely left South Africa behind.
19 Aug 20266 min read
Within days of release, the South African crime drama has reached number one on Netflix at home and number six on the platform’s global non-English television chart, turning local attention into measurable international reach.
18 Aug 20265 min read
After years of becoming one of South African music’s most recognisable featured voices, Rowlene is entering a different frame as Some Strings Attached, international recognition and an upcoming Johannesburg album launch place her firmly at the centre.
18 Aug 20265 min read
Rapsody’s fifth studio album, God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops, was shaped partly in Johannesburg, with Nomsa Mazwai and Soweto’s Karabo Ya Morena carrying South African voices directly into the project.
18 Aug 20265 min read
A new Silwerskerm short film follows two siblings whose attempt to honour their grandmother becomes a confrontation with grief, ownership and a past they are no longer permitted to enter.
15 Aug 20267 min read
A new partnership gives Beatlab members discounted access to six Soul Candi Institute of Music courses, connecting production, theory, music business and performance training inside one creator-focused ecosystem.
15 Aug 20267 min read
The new Silwerskerm documentary follows Terence “The Highlander” Opperman into a competitive arm-wrestling world built on technique, discipline, rivalry, pressure and an unexpectedly close-knit community.
15 Aug 20266 min read
The American alternative R&B artist has never performed in South Africa, yet Johannesburg has become her strongest listening city. With “Touch” and If I’m Being Honest, MALIA is beginning to understand what that unexpected connection could become.
12 Aug 20265 min read
With The Road Home now filming in South Africa, Thabo Rametsi is carrying Hugh Masekela through an international production that places the politics of Graceland, apartheid and South African musical resistance at the centre — alongside Cynthia Erivo, Johnny Flynn, Guy Pearce and now John Legend.
11 Aug 20265 min read
Oskido’s major honours do not read like a closing chapter. From the Metro FM Lifetime Achievement Award to the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver, they recognise a builder whose influence is still moving through South African music.
11 Aug 20264 min read
In Netflix’s South African crime drama Umthetho, Nqobile Nunu Khumalo plays a young prosecutor pulled between justice, family and survival when her brother becomes the centre of the criminal world she is supposed to fight.
11 Aug 20267 min read
From Abathwebuli Trio’s restless African jazz language to Louis Mhlanga’s four-decade guitar history and Herbie Tsoaeli’s commanding bass work, Jazz at Jozi Gold is turning August into a celebration of South African jazz as a living, evolving tradition.
11 Aug 20265 min read
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 DStv’s 12-year headline-sponsorship era over, Delicious Festival’s real 2026 story is not a calendar move or broadcast handover. It is whether the cultural property can prove it was always bigger than the corporate prefix.
09 Aug 20266 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