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Amaxelegu – Review

It is the 2020s in unfriendly and disengaged Philipi, one of Cape Town’s youngest townships with no more than forty years of history. A visibly tired and sluggish Mama Priscilla (N...

August 15, 2024

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Culture / 04/06/21

Somi

Born in Illinois to immigrants from Rwanda and Uganda, African and Jazz legacies are always crucial to Somi’s sound. A two-time recipient of The Doris Duke Foundation’s French-American Jazz Exchange Composers’ Grant, she...

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The Mother of All Eating

March 25, 2021

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Whisky Live Festival Jaunt

I could not leave of course before I thanked my ancestors through the much beguiled J&B Jet. It is the reason I’m on this Whisky sojourn after all. As we bumbled our way out at the...

November 23, 2020

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Culture / 02/02/20

Die Volle Fokken Spy

Tasked with recounting the life and times of Jairus ‘Jakarumba’ Nkwe, a successful yet notoriously colourful problem child of Kwaito, the production in fact went beyond its call of duty as it drew crowds from all sectors...

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Losing Lerato - A Review

September 17, 2019

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REVIEW: Ekasi Lam – An Ode to Kwaito, Un-Owed to Kwaito

In 1994, the air in South African townships was different. Even through dense grey smoke from Gogo’s Magic or Welcome Dover iron coal stove, it still felt and smelt renewed. Hope w...

August 30, 2019

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Culture / 18/03/19

Ntsika - I Write What I Dream

Late last week, as if anticipating this week’s very much coffee, muffins and sex weather, Ntsika Ngxanga member of award winning a cappella trio The Soil, released his impeccably g...