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• Kwela Bafana runs at the Playhouse Loft Theatre from December 12 to 22 with shows at 7pm and matinees at 2.30pm on Sundays. Tickets are R60 for the preview (December 12) and R80 for subsequent ...
Kwela has made a rich contribution to South Africa's soundscape from his role in Kwani Experience to him portraying inner-city stories on Yeoville Radio. Adept at Funk, Afrobeat, Electronica and ...
Kwela is devoting October to celebrate one of our country’s finest novelists and poets, Finuala Dowling, and the publication of her new novel, Okay, Okay, Okay.
In 1975, when Kwela stepped into the state-of-the-art Satbel Music Recording Studios on 195 Marshall Street to work on Black Beauty for the Joburg/Soweto labels, the long wave of Mannenberg’s ...
Like jazz, kwela is essentially a male-dominated style. But back in the 1970s all that was destined to change when Lerole met a young singer and schoolteacher from the rolling hills of Eastern Cape.
Kwela Tebza perform on the Joy of Jazz’s new Conga stage at the Newtown Precinct on Friday August 26 and Saturday August 27. For more from the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, see our special report.
Cape Town – kykNET (DStv 144) is moving its weekly Afrikaans magazine show Kwêla to a new timeslot again from this weekend – now to Sundays at 18:00 – and is adding a new documentary series, Oppi ...
As part of their prize, there will be a festive affair with music, food and fun made even better by the spirit of a winning town. Kwêla ’s cameras will be at hand to capture the joy. It will be ...
Bulawayo’s Kwela Calabash, composed of veteran jazz musicians, is determined to ensure that kwela music does not die. Kwela Calabash lead singer and instrumentalist Thompson Banda told NewsDay ...
kykNET moves Kwêla again, adds doc series about SA’s TV history Cape Town – kykNET (DStv 144) is moving its weekly Afrikaans magazine show Kwêla to a new timeslot again from this weekend – now to ...