The annual Mzansi Kwaito and House Music Awards (MKHMA) are set to return for their sixth edition in November and the plan is to have the events live at Sun City's Super Bowl - provided the Covid-19 ...

“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, ...

It's Saturday night and the streets of Johannesburg's Newtown section are thumpin'. South Africans usually avoid the crime-ridden downtown area after dark, but tonight minibus-taxis and cars packed ...

In 2015, kwaito legends came together to launch a Strictly Kwaito Legends Festival, with the intention of keeping the genre alive. After a six-year hiatus, partly due to Covid-19, some kwaito stars ...

Originating in the black townships of South Africa in the mid-1990s, Kwaito music fuses hip-hop, house music, reggae and melodic African rhythms. Although Kwaito has been labeled by many as African ...

Grant Clark goes to Johannesburg to explore the origins of Kwaito music and find out why it has become the voice of urban youth in the new South Africa. When people think of Johannesburg - their first ...

Hammanskraal kwaito star Mandla Mokoena has shot down suggestions kwaito is dying. The Kanana-born artist known as Mindlos was responding suggestion that the genre was hot on the heels of its recently ...

Marking three years of performing at the DStv Delicious Festival this year, Ungawa Kum hitmaker Thebe Mogane, known as Thebe Lenyora or just Thebe, says it still feels like the first time and fans ...

Eish! Skeem Saam is always serving us life lessons like we're in school and this week the show touched a serious nerve when Kwaito bailed his mom out of her financial struggles. Y'all remember how ...

Those close to kwaito musician Sandile “Mapaputsi” Ngwenya have expressed concern about his health. It is alleged the star has been unwell and concerns about his wellbeing are growing as his family ...