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

A certain amount of political baggage had to be shaken off before such a feat could be realised – not just in the right words ...

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.

It will see ballet's grace, flamenco's flamboyance and pantsula - a highly energetic dance style that stems from the youth during the apartheid era - come together to retell this classic story ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dance company Via Katlehong is keeping South Africa's pantsula heritage alive. The genre, since fallen out of fashion, first emerged in the townships in the 60s and 70s. As a creative narration of ...

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 helping to revive the dance style and ...

and has taken the dance to the global stage with shows in France, the Netherlands and Portugal. For Qofela, too, pantsula was more than just entertainment. It helped him stay out of trouble while ...

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 ...