Just around 10 million people speak isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. So how did a song in the little-known dialect become a hit with billions of people around the world? The song in question ...

Through the University of Fort Hare, Akhona Ndzuta receives funding from the NRF. Apart from the song’s omnipresence on the sound systems of a cross-section of socio-economic neighbourhoods across ...

One night in 2019, DJ Kgaogelo Moagi, better known as Master KG, called up singer Nomcebo to come to his Johannesburg studio to record a song. “‘But it’s very late,’” Nomcebo recalled telling him.

Master KG , the South African DJ behind the global pop hit "Jerusalema", performs at the Sand Festival on the beaches of Lake Malawi on November 1. [AFP] When coronavirus placed the world in lockdown, ...

What began as a unifying anthem during the uncertainty of 2020 has spiraled into one of South Africa’s most high-profile music disputes. Jerusalema—the gospel-influenced house hit whose infectious ...