Fashioning Modern Africanism

The duo's hit single Ibhanoyi came out tops to take the prestigious Record of the Year award. This is one of the two public voted awards where music fans make their voice heard by choosing from the top 20 songs shortlisted. Last night, rapper AKA won the Music Video of the Year award for Jika featuring Yanga Chief. Dance music maestro Prince Kaybee made a clean sweep scoring major wins in the Album of the Year and Best Dance Album categories. He picked up the Male Artist of the Year earlier in the week to become one of the three most awarded artists of the 2020 edition of SAMA. With three awards, Prince Kaybee is tied with jazz newcomer Ndabo Zulu (& Umgidi Ensemble) who won the Duo/Group of the Year tonight, having already won Newcomer of the Year and Best Jazz Album awards earlier in the week. Gospel legend, Bishop Benjamin Dube also walked away with three gongs for Best Live Audio Visual, Best Contemporary Faith Album and Lifetime Achievement Award. Francois van Coke’s Dagdr

South Africa possesses a vibrant, fun-loving youth who appreciate music and dance. A lot of its youth are extremely gifted, bustling with creativity and constantly needing an outlet or platform to showcase their talent.   Since the beginning of lockdown in the past few months, content creators have been highly reliant on phone recordings, livestreams, and other alternatives to compensate for the lack of studio spaces and venues for live performances. Thanks to the technology available at our finger tips in the form of smartphones, these devices are very useful to content creators of all kinds, be it musicians, sound technicians, podcasters or bloggers – but smartphones have limitations.  "We are not trying to replace the studio, w e saw the rise in virtual showdowns and virtual comedy shows livestreaming on various platforms. Dolby On offers user-friendly audio processing options, white noise reduction and a number of other features to help create music that is more gig-ready. We

Kelly khumalo is one of South Africa’s biggest music stars, who’s been named Best Female Artist at the South African Music Awards, sold  millions of albums,  opened for Grammy winner Missy Elliott, and has over 1.7m followers on Instagram alone.     “The woman that you see in front of you is self-made,” says Kelly Khumalo in the opening sequence of her reality show  Life With Kelly Khumalo , now streaming on Showmax. “I can't say I have a point of reference when it comes to being a good woman. However, I am now ready to embrace the greatness that God has created me for.”   In her Showmax Original, South African audiences will get a front-row seat to Kelly’s life as  a single mother of two who is juggling parenting with the build-up to the release of not just her new album,  The Voice of Africa,  but also her first gin, appropriately titled Controversy. K elly's son, Christian, and her daughter, Thingo, feature in  Life With Kelly Khumalo  alongside their super-star mommy. Thing

This year’s Top 10 Miss South Africa finalists – one of whom will be crowned Miss South Africa 2020 on Saturday, October 24, in a glamorous and entertainment-packed pageant screened live on M-Net and Mzansi Magic and streamed for an international audience – have been announced. The contestants represent six provinces – Gauteng has four (with three from Tshwane and one from Soweto), followed by the Eastern Cape with two, while Kwa-Zulu Natal, Western Cape, Limpopo and North West each has one entrant. They are an impressive group and include two medical doctors working on the Covid frontline; two full-time international models as well as marketing, education and economics graduates and a food scientist. For the first time in the history of the Miss South Africa pageant, the contestants who make the Top 3 will represent the country at the world’s three most prestigious pageants. Previously, the Miss South Africa Organisation sent a representative to both Miss Universe and Miss World, but

Performer and business woman Fundi Zwane, who has captured the hearts of South African audiences with her unforgettable acting talents over the years, dropped her debut fragrance range last week Wednesday.  The 35-year-old   Port Shepstone-born actress and producer, launched  CAMAGU by Fundi Zwane   – a project that ’ s been in the making for the past few months. Fundi says that the idea to develop her very own fragrance range, which caters to both men and women, was inspired by  “ market research and innovative business synergy”.  Having played in the beauty and cosmetic space previously herself, Fundi is excited to launch a product that is  inclusive in what's on offer for both, women and men.  Both scents are a culmination of everything I love in perfumes. Honing down on the scent and notes that worked and danced well together took time. There was a myriad of scents and to learn about perfuming and body chemistry has been refreshing.” " CAMAGU   by Fundi Zwane   came to lif

ON THAT NIGHT, M-NET WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE TO DStv COMPACT PLUS, COMPACT PLUS, COMPACT AND FAMIILY VIEWERS! M-Net, the MultiChoice Group’s flagship channel on DStv Premium, has acquired the rights from The Walt Disney Company to screen Black Is King across Africa. The film by Beyoncé, is based on the music of The Lion King: The Gift from last year’s release of Disney’s The Lion King.  The teaser and trailer about this new visual album are already taking the world by storm. More good news is that M-Net will bring Black Is King to the continent within 24-hours of its debut on Disney+. The M-Net screening is scheduled for Saturday, 1 August at  20:00 CAT and 21:00 EAT/WAT.   And, DStv customers who don’t have access to M-Net can shrug off any FOMO (fear of missing out). As a special treat for those subscribing to other DStv packages, the MultiChoice Group will open M-Net to DStv Compact Plus, Compact and Family for two hours on the night that Black Is King arrives in Africa. Furthermore,