Styles like afrohouse, gqom and amapiano are thriving – but with ‘half-baked white kids getting a lot more airplay’, South Africa’s inequalities still hold the dance scene back Many people got their ...

If you are a fan of TikTok dance challenges, you've likely experienced the infectious rhythm and captivating choreography of the “Vathela” challenge. This vibrant dance has quickly become a global ...

After he first announced his new hustle as a DJ on 7 November 2025, Andile Mpisane has been hard at work taking up bookings.

‘I pioneered Cape Town gqom’ — 24-year-old Simphiwe Sihawu from Samora Machel in Cape Town took the South African gqom sound to South Korea and the UK all in one year. Sihawu, better known as Mr Thela ...

YOU could be the next dancing sensation and star in a television commercial. South Africa’s most loved school shoe brand has just the thing for you. Toughees wants you to show us your best dance moves ...

South Africa (as I covered in a previous profile of House producer Black Coffee) has cemented its place as one of the world’s most innovative producers and exporters of dance music. By now, the ...

This collaborative mixtape between Gqom Oh! and the Rome-based Crudo Volta collective showcases some of the best music that gqom—a raw, brash dance music coming from Durban—has ever produced. Save ...

The thing about music is that it evolves beyond the location it was established in or its brainchild. Take Hip Hop for instance, it was founded in the mid-70s in Brooklyn, New York, by black youth, ...

One local learner could be the next dance sensation and star in a TV advert­. But the learner’s “Gqom” dance moves must outshine those of scores of other primary school competitors across the country.

Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to South African pioneer DJ Lag about his debut album 'Meeting With The King' and a series of encounters that shaped his path in music and life Aggressive, poetic, artistic ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...