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 ...

She was supposed to be finalising the last of the preparations this month. After six years of running the annual Mzansi Kwaito House Music Awards, they were ready to do something different to ...

“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 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 ...

When Kwaito burst onto the South African music scene in the early 1990s, the infectious mix of chanted lyrics, slowed-down house beats and bass-heavy African percussion quickly became the soundtrack ...

He is joining the list of veteran Kwaito artists performing at the Strictly Kwaito Legends Festival fundraiser for ailing kwaito veteran Bonginkosi "Zola 7" Dlamini taking place at the Bears Palace ...

The death or otherwise of kwaito is up for debate. The originators of this music form, such as the Trompies, Mdu and B.O.P, insist that the cultural phenomenon that was once (if not still) the soul of ...