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Listening to Stogie T’s aNomy, one never knows how to feel. Are we celebrating, mourning or numbing? Most times, it feels like all three, folded into a single verse.
A line about a two-toned Rolex could be setting you up for a poignant apartheid metaphor. He raps “Victory is ours” on Sankara’s Grief, “but stray bullets kill br...
There are moments in music where sound becomes something more — something visual, almost spiritual. Moments where you don’t just hear a song, you see the person behind it.
Sodwa, Pearl Thusi’s debut single featuring the legendary Ihashi Elimhlophe, arrives exactly like that. It does not knock on the door; it simply opens it and fills t...
It’s the musical most of us associate with the hit song Memory and with grown men and women prancing around the stage wearing leotards, tails and shaggy feline wigs pretending to be what the poet T.S. Eliot dubbed “Jellicle cats”.
No matter your feelings about it, though, there’s no denying that – for the performers – it’s possibly the...
The Sunday 8pm time slot on DStv’s Mzansi Magic has certainly become synonymous with rich African stories.
Shaka iLembe for instance, explored the life of Shaka Zulu and the makings of the Zulu kingdom. In Queen Modjadji viewers learned about the story of the Balobedu matriarchal dynasty and its rain-making abilities. From Sund...
Pretoria has always pulsed with artistic life, its movements shifting with each generation but always grounded in community, creativity, and cultural exchange.
There was a time in my youth, when the week was a carefully crafted itinerary of inspiration with events hosted in libraries, university campuses and pavements. For instance, one had a ch...
