For 30 years, beginning in the 1980s, the South African dance pantsula has grown in popularity in the black townships surrounding Johannesburg, but it's only become a mainstay of the capital city ...

JOHANNESBURG, July 7 (Reuters) - Thato Qofela first performed 'pantsula', a symbol of Black South African culture and resistance to the apartheid regime, in his childhood backyard. Now, he is ...

Ever experienced "gumboot" or "pantsula" dancing? I'm pretty sure I haven't, which is why I'm curious about the Festival of South African Dance, set for Sunday (Nov. 5) at the Holland Center.

South African dance group The Tembisa Red Devils have travelled to the US to appear in a Coldplay music video. The group’s ...

Growing up in an impoverished Black township near Johannesburg in the 1980s, the boy, Vusi Mdoyi, loved watching his father dance with friends, in a style known as pantsula, in the dirt yards of ...

From Soweto to Spain, Teboho “Tebza” Diphehlo is pushing boundaries with pantsula dance. At the height of Covid-19, in 2020, when many people were stuck indoors, some with no jobs and income ...

Pantsula is undoubtedly the unofficial dance of Mzansi, and no other music act has pioneered modern pantsula like iconic kwaito group Trompies. Through its ghetto-fabulous lyrics, banger beats ...

The Johannesburg-based dance group, the Tembisa Red Devils Pantsula, is eager to fly the South African flag high in the ...

It was there in the 1976 uprising. It was there alongside the Madiba jive in 1994 and it’s with us today, in our fashion, our music and our dance battles. Pantsula isn’t a trend. It’s a culture.

South African collective Soweto Skeleton Movers dance skeleton and pantsula styles. Pantsula dance was birthed in the townships of South Africa during the apartheid era. Lerato Motsepe is the ...

See them in action here: Pantsula dance emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a response to the forced removals implemented by the Apartheid government, shortly after its ascent to power. It began in ...