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The SAMA32 shortlist and the awards’ return to the North West show a South African music industry shaped by many hubs, regional scenes and independent paths to recognition.
26 Jun 20267 min read
With more than 70,000 tickets already reported sold, over 500,000 fans in the online queue and an extra 5,000 tickets being released, Scorpion Kings Live is proving that Amapiano can now operate at stadium scale.
24 Jun 20262 min read
Released after his Shimza&Co run at Pacha Ibiza, Sunset in Pretoria shows Shimza pulling Afro House’s global movement back toward home, memory and South African emotional geography.
24 Jun 20262 min read
The National Arts Council’s 2026 Annual Project Funding outcomes expose the brutal gap between what South African artists need and what the funding system can actually provide.
24 Jun 20262 min read
SAI HLE’s Red Bull Symphonic performance on SABC1 proves that national television can still turn an emerging act into a shared cultural question.
24 Jun 20262 min read
Liquideep’s Untitled Basement show is more than a return to stage. It points to a future where legacy acts control the room, the story and the emotional pace of their own live experiences.
24 Jun 20262 min read
The 14th kykNET Silwerskerm Festival shows an Afrikaans screen industry expanding across shorts, documentaries, pilots and industry sessions — while the full-length feature pipeline raises harder questions about sustainability.
24 Jun 20262 min read
Before “SASEZOLA” officially arrived on streaming platforms, its hook had already become a homecoming feeling across TikTok and social media.
22 Jun 20262 min read
Netflix’s The Polygamist understands how South Africans watch local drama now: loudly, emotionally, musically and straight through the group chat.
22 Jun 20262 min read
On The Myth We Choose, Nduduzo Makhathini turns jazz into a future-facing ritual, asking what myths today’s songs will leave behind for the generations still coming.
22 Jun 20261 min read
At the Standard Bank Art Lab, Rumours/2026 reactivates Santu Mofokeng’s quiet, radical insistence that Black life must be seen beyond trauma, spectacle and official archives.
22 Jun 20261 min read
With Gods of War available only on limited pressed CDs, Ruff Majik are turning scarcity, scene loyalty and physical music into a new kind of underground social currency.
22 Jun 20261 min read
With This God-Awful Buzz, The Medicine Dolls are not waiting for platforms or institutions to archive South African rock. They are documenting the chaos themselves.
22 Jun 20261 min read
With “Is It Love,” Tyla brings vulnerability into the centre of her A*POP era, proving that she can make the club feel like a confession without losing the rhythm that made her global.
20 Jun 20261 min read
Sello Maake KaNcube’s return as Daniel Nyathi gives Scandal!’s final chapter the kind of television memory, danger and emotional weight that long-running soapies need when they say goodbye.
20 Jun 20261 min read
Ruff, Emtee, Sjava and Saudi’s The Trap Temptations does more than revive African Trap Movement nostalgia. It turns history, survival and brotherhood into one of South African hip-hop’s most important reunion moments.
20 Jun 20261 min read
Prince Kaybee’s new partnership with PLAYY. Records and upcoming single “Heno Babayo” signal more than a label move. They mark a creative reset shaped by endurance, reinvention and Afro-house freedom.
20 Jun 20261 min read
Basha Uhuru’s 2026 edition shows that Youth Month cannot only be about remembering 1976. It also has to create platforms, market access and real opportunities for young creatives today.
20 Jun 20261 min read