Recorded in 1967, during the bloody heyday of apartheid South Africa, the joyful, defiant, easy-swinging jazz-jive heard on Mbaqanga Songs was then the recreational soundtrack of the country's black ...

If there’s one music style that never fails to make me smile its classic girl groups. The harmonies, the youth, the choreographed moves, the identical outfits – what’s not to love. I’ve spent ...

So appalling and oppressive did conditions become that the most famous South African musicians of the period, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, both fled into exile (the former after she testified ...

Ever thought you'd see Winnie Mashaba dancing to Mbaqanga music? Well, either way, you're in for a treat. The gospel heavyweight appeared to be having the time of her life in a video that she posted ...

As a child growing up in suburban Pretoria during the 1970s, Louise Meintjes (MAIN-keys) vividly remembers hearing the growling male vocals, insistent female choruses and driving electric beats of ...

Fka Mash's new EP 'Love Songs From Soweto' takes inspiration from musical styles that were pioneered in the face of - and overcame - colonial oppression As Black music culture grew in the townships ...

Francistown — Thapelo Maleka, who goes by the alias MC Maswe, is a man on a mission as he has set out to create his own music genre. He explains that this hybrid music genre mixes mbaqanga and house ...

Hundreds of traditional Mbaqanga music lovers are expected to converge in Hammersdale outside Pinetown to pay their last respects to the lead singer of legendary tradition music group – The Soul ...

The late Mbaqanga saxophonist, Leyden Naftalie, might have long gone to be reunited with his ancestors after losing a long battle with diabetes in1996 at the age of 65. However, his legacy will remain ...

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Fka Mash's new EP 'Love Songs From Soweto' takes inspiration from musical styles that were pioneered in the face of - and overcame - colonial oppression As Black music culture grew in the townships ...