Globally renowned South African DJ duo Goldfish return to London to perform their explosive live show at Electric Brixton on Sunday 20 April. We review their latest album, ‘Three Second Memory’.
South African music personality Jon Savage needs your help to complete his black comedy film about the SA music scene.
Fresh from a hugely successful American tour, trailblazing Capetonian electric act Goldfish will be bringing the party to London on the Easter weekend. They tell us about repping South Africa, hanging out with Carl Cox and gathering groupies in the USA.
The Parlotones performed live at Kensington’s trendiest venue, The Roof Gardens on Tuesday night. Before the gig, we sat down with frontman Kahn Morbee to find out about life in Los Angeles and being big in Germany.
The Parlotones became the first South African band to have an album included in Virgin Atlantic’s music library after performing live on their flight to London.
In this thought-provoking documentary, Khalo Matabane explores the ideals Nelson Mandela fought for (freedom, reconciliation and forgiveness) and questions whether they hold any resonance in contemporary South Africa.
South Africans are seen by foreigners as a happy bunch of people, friendly and welcoming, always very hospitable, and now Cape Town has gone and put that happiness into a music video.
The nominees for the milestone 20th edition of the annual South African Music Awards were announced at Sun International’s Carnival City in Ekurhuleni last week. A number of new kids on the music block dominate the major categories – with some familiar favourites also creeping into the running.
Globally renowned South African DJ duo Goldfish return to London to perform at the Electric Brixton on Sunday 20 April.
Award-winning documentary ‘Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me’ will make its UK debut at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London this month.
Directed by Spanish director Carlos Agulló and Johannesburg filmmaker Mandy Jacobson, ‘Plot for Peace’ is a whole new take on the heritage of central and southern Africa.
South Africa is a country devoted to God, and Pentecostal ‘Megachurches’ are booming. But as well as conventional priests, thousands of young people follow self-styled prophets — and Prophet Mboro is one of the most controversial and colourful of them all.
A new documentary introduces an outside view about the demise of apartheid, bringing a previously unknown, international perspective on South Africa’s transformation
In the second episode of a three-part BBC documentary Reggie Yates spends a week in a new hospital on the Cape Flats that is struggling to cope with the victims of violent crime. On any given weekend, the young doctors deal with up to 100 stabbings and assaults and 80 per cent of those admitted are under 25.
In a new three-part documentary, BBC presenter Reggie Yates decides to live in three very different South African communities, including a white squatter camp, the Cape Flats and a Pentecostal church
If you haven’t heard of Stelio Savante yet you had better listen up, as this South African is conquering Hollywood by storm.
We take you inside a visionary campaign to inspire change by showing what mobile technology can do to connect ordinary people
Kurt Darren is performing at The Orange Bull Sports Bar London SE16 5LJ – the only time this year you will be able to see him LIVE in the UK!
A visually compelling ad campaign for Guinness, conceived by two South African creatives at a London ad agency, introduces a new level of storytelling to the world of advertising
With the South African general elections nearing and political parties campaigning across the nation, the power of online marketing comes to the forefront once more, as Evita Bezuidenhout demonstrates
Despite a solid performance at the South African box office, Long Walk To Freedom has faltered overseas after a strong opening weekend – and now, the Mandela biopic more than 20 years in the making has also been snubbed at the Oscars
The strong box office performance of the Nelson Mandela film came on the back of positive reviews from British critics.
Although designed for an international audience, this selection of programmes about Mandela’s life provide some fascinating insights into South African history and the making of democracy.
ITV is screening the documentary 28UP South Africa, the fourth part of the 7UP series in which six children (now adults) were filmed every seven years since 1992. It shows the country’s transformation as well as the children’s, giving insight into life in a country that has gone through momentous change.
Our affection for Madiba will overlook the flaws in ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’, our patriotism will fill in the gaps; we’ll forgive the director and lead actors being Brits because this is our story, both traumatic and transcendant, told to the whole world on the big screen.