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 ...

‘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 ...

Perhaps in a manner similar to dancehall, it is nearly impossible to speak of gqom without paying attention to its environmental context. The dance space, be it legendary clubs such as downtown Durban ...

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, ...

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 ...

Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...

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 ...

Just as I thought it, DJ Tira gave voice to my random thoughts. Why are there so many “boyz” in gqom music? There are the Distruction Boyz (sic) and then there are the Rude Boyz. Sure, DJ Maphorisa is ...

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 ...