Mandoza's widow, Mpho Tshabalala, shared the details behind the planning of the Nkalakatha Festival, set to honour the late ...

I meet Sbu "The General" Nxumalo at his house on one of the many numbered avenues of Melville. There's a sanded-down door against a white pillar on the backyard stoep. Two dogs run around vying for ...

“We just wanted to make good music,” says electronic music producer Jakinda. “When we met, neither of us went into the studio thinking ‘we want to make future kwaito’, but after dropping our EP, ...

The annual Mzansi Kwaito and House Music Awards (MKHMA) are set to return for their sixth edition in November and the plan is to have the events live at Sun City's Super Bowl - provided the Covid-19 ...

Bruce “Dope” Sebitlo, a kwaito music veteran and the co-founder of award-winning record label Kalawa Jazmee, recently got his flowers at ...

‘I guess I’m the young prince who’s trying to kill his dad, the king, and take over the kingdom. But I’ve been in exile for a while and now I’m back to take the throne,” said Spoek Mathambo, sitting ...

Grant Clark goes to Johannesburg to explore the origins of Kwaito music and find out why it has become the voice of urban youth in the new South Africa. When people think of Johannesburg - their first ...

South African Kwaito star L'vovo opened up about his multiple near-death experiences and jokingly compared himself to the cat that has nine lives.

The printing and copying business run by Zynne Sibika and Gao Mokone in Johannesburg is sandwiched between a fast food outlet and a gas station. Inside the building, the pungent aroma of fried chicken ...

Originating in the black townships of South Africa in the mid-1990s, Kwaito music fuses hip-hop, house music, reggae and melodic African rhythms. Although Kwaito has been labeled by many as African ...