Busi Mhlongo – Izizwe (Remix & Live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/busi-mhlongo-izizwe-remix/
Busi Mhlongo (1947 – 2010) was a singer, dancer and composer originally from Inanda in Natal, South Africa.
Busi Mhlongo drew on various South African styles such as Mbaqanga, Maskanda, Marabi and traditional Zulu, fused with contemporary elements from Jazz, Funk, Rock, Gospel, Rap [...]
#AfroHouse #LiveMusic #Mbaqanga #SouthAfrica #Electro #Remixed
Yvonne Chaka Chaka – Let Me Be Free
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yvonne-chaka-chaka-let-me-be-free/
Yvonne Chaka Chaka (Yvonne Machaka – 1965) is a South African singer from Soweto at the forefront of South African popular music since the ’80s, when “Bubblegum” music was all the rage.
Miriam Makeba said of her “She’s my baby!” and Hugh Masekela called Chaka Chaka “my mad niece”.
DJ Zinhle – Indlovu Feat. Loyiso
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dj-zinhle-indlovu-loyiso/
DJ Zinhle (Ntombezinhle Jiyane Mohosana from KwaZulu-Natal) managed a female-only DJ academy (FUSE Academy, closed in 2019) and received many awards since starting her career around 2004.
It only took me two years - but, I've finally published my Drakensberg Trip Report Blog, recounting favourite and daily memories from my multi-day #BackPacking trip across the #SouthAfrica #Mountain range.
If you'd like to read about it, and see some of the accompanying images, you can checkout the blog here!
https://photography.ggiebelhaus.ca/posts/trip-report---the-drakensberg/
#photography #landscapephotography #lpw #blog #photoblog #africa
Harari – Party
https://amf.didiermary.fr/harari-party/
This single by Harari, “Party” (the 7″ release), entered the US Disco Top 100 in 1982.
Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band – Skokiaan (1947)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bulawayo-sweet-rhythm-band-skokiaan-1947/
Skokiaan (the Tsaba Tsaba Dance – also known as Skokiyana, Skokian) is probably better known in the version recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1954 with the Sy Oliver orchestra, but this track was originally released in Rhodesia in 1947 by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm(s) Band. The tune found it’s way to the U.S. and lots […]
Letta Mbulu – Not Yet Uhuru
https://amf.didiermary.fr/letta-mbulu-not-yet-uhuru/
Letta Mbulu and Caiphus Semenya finally returned to South Africa in 1991, after 26 years in exile. The singer also finally returned to records in 1992 with the remarkable “Not Yet Uhuru,” her first album recorded on South African soil. It was arranged and produced by Mbulu’s multi-talented husband, Caiphus Semenya, who also composed most […]
Judith Sephuma – Iya Iyo (Stixx Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJI7XQwgI2E
"Education is the key, the key for many.
Let’s educate our children."
Judith Sephuma is a South African jazz and Afro-pop singer.
Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
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Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
https://www.propublica.org/article/human-rights-aid-right-wing-causes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #Europe #HumanRights #HumanitarianAid #Rightwing #Politics
Mali music star Salif Keïta cancels South African concerts over 'xenophobic violence'
TDK Macassette – Left Right
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tdk-macassette-left-right/
TDK Macassette, whose real name is Thandeka Nompumelelo Mkhwanazi, is a South African dancer, singer, radio host and media personality. She got her break in the music industry when she briefly worked with DJ Maphorisa.
In May 2019, she released her single “Left Right,” and as a dancer, she was featured on Prince Kaybee’s music video […]
Prince Kaybee – Gugulethu
https://amf.didiermary.fr/prince-kaybee-gugulethu/
Released in 2019 on his “Re Mmino” album, the song “Gugulethu” by Prince Kaybee features powerhouse vocalist Indlovukazi, with Supta and Afro Brothers on production.
The video was shot at Mzoli’s Shisanyama which is situated in this popular township.
The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for "our pride/ our hope." […]
Frigid Armadillo – Penga Feat. Njivinator
https://amf.didiermary.fr/frigid-armadillo-penga-feat-njivinator/
The South African duo Frigid Armadillo in 2023 with their EP Penga.
Self-described “pioneers of uncharted house music terrain”, 31-year-old Lebo Lechela and Siyabulela Buhlungu of Frigid Armadillo have been making waves with impressive fusions of tech and mainstream house since meeting at the U. of Johannesburg. A decade of friendship later, [...]
Darque - Ke Mang Feat. Zee Nxumalo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-EFt29GDDE
Pops Mohamed – Election Day Serenade
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pops-mohamed-election-day-serenade/
Ismail Mohamed-Jan, aka Pops Mohamed (1949 – 2025), was a South African multi-instrumentalist, jazz musician and producer.
Pops Mohamed had started his musical journey at Dorkay House, where he studied guitar and was able to hear the rehearsals of jazz legends such as saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. Later, it became one of his meeting and rehearsal […]
Scorpion Kings (Kabza de Small & DJ Maphorisa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snJYwbJuftY
Full 2 hours concert, live at Piano People High Lights (London) in May 2026.
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
https://amf.didiermary.fr/indestructible-beat-soweto/
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto is a compilation album released in 1985, featuring twelve tracks by artists from South Africa. The sleeve notes state that all songs are in the mbaqanga style, a guitar-based style popular at the time in the townships of Johannesburg and Durban, but the tracks actually cover four different styles, mbaqanga, […]
Jazz/The African Sound
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-african-sound-chris-mcgregor/
“Jazz/The African Sound” by Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band, one of the most important African records of all time, a lost global jazz classic, and a true holy grail for collectors of Jazz and WorldJazz.
Christopher McGregor (1936 – 1990) was a South African Jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset […]
#60smusic #Apartheid #BrassBand #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica
Mike Makhalemele – Going West
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mike-makhalemele-going-west/
Mike Makhalemele (1938-2000), from Alexandra, South Africa, nicknamed “Ratau” (“lion”), played saxophone, here with Jabu Nkosi (keyboards) and Sipho Gumede (bass) in a reissue of a classic album.
[He] was a force of nature with a robust yet soulful tone and seemingly endless breath. He embraced the pop music scene as an enthusiastic collaborator and […]
!Sooks, J'Something — Bring On The Night Feat. King Dashnote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33xlpBZ0A8
A cover of a song by Sting for The Police on album Reggatta de Blanc (1979).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_On_the_Night_(song)
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFAYAEgKMA
The Mahotella Queens – Jive Mabone
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-mahotella-queens-jive-mabone/
Jive Mabone (Show Them How to Jive), by the Mahotella Queens, the track that was the “basis” (aka plagiarized) for “Jive My Baby” on Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock in 1983, produced by Trevor Horn.
From the compilation “Soweto Never Sleeps: Classic Female Zulu Jive” released in 1986. […]
Emmanuel Jal – Chaak
https://amf.didiermary.fr/emmanuel-jal-chaak-bun-xapa/
“Chaak” is a collaboration between South Sudanese artist Emmanuel Jal and South African producer and DJ, Bun Xapa. Emmanuel Jal is a former child soldier, turned international recording artist, activist and philanthropist. Bun Xapa comes from a rural township and broke through into the AfroHouse scene in 2023.
“Chaak” which means ‘Milk’ in Emmanuel’s mother […]
Dollar Brand – Zimbabwe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dollar-brand-zimbabwe-abdullah-ibrahim/
“Zimbabwe” is the name of a composition, on the album of the same name, released by Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim for Enja Records in 1983.
The track also appears in a shorter live version on “South Africa”, a 25th Anniversary Series album for the Enja Heritage Collection (first released in 1986), that is described […]
Amagoduka – Zim Ngqawana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zim-ngqawana-amagoduka-migrant-workers/
The song Amagoduka, by Zim Ngqawana, tells the tale of migrant workers who’ve historically had to leave their homes in the hinterlands for big cities in search of a better day.
Zim Ngqawana (1959-2011)
South African flautist and saxophonist, composer and teacher, Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’ (and later as ‘Zimology’) was born in […]
Muzi – Stimela SeGolide
https://amf.didiermary.fr/muzi-stimela-segolide/
Muziwakhe McVictor Mazibuko, known professionally as Muzi, is a South African DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His EP “Stimela SeGolide” (2019) tells the story of displacement, cheap labor and love under apartheid.
“Mom used to tell me stories about how her parents had to take trains to JHB to go to em mines. How […]
