After a month of proving itself as a world class host, South Africa now simply returns to being a world class nation with world class citizens. While soccer fans may already be looking to Brasil, fans of music, art and culture continue a hopefully long relationship with South Africa. With ...
You can probably hear it from where you’re sitting, the constant wailing drone of the ubiquitous vuvuzela. But what you can’t hear is the individual artistry: a hefty howl, an elephantine bellow, the farty wheeze of a new blower. One thing difficult to convey about the vuvuzela to people ...
After spending plenty of time in landlocked Jo’burg, we ventured southeast to coastal Durban, where surfing and heavy house music commingle comfortably with stiltwalkers and Zulu dancers. We drove up the coast to Ballito to meet with local waveriders before heading back down to city ...
Two years ago, we put South Africa’s BLK JKS on the cover of our Africa issue after hearing about them through a couple trusted sources. At the time, they were nearly unknown outside of their home country, but have since blown up bigger than we could have imagined and were chosen to ...
Zothani Vilakazi and Mlungisi Gamede started Street Pop two years ago in the streets of Soweto. Today, they help spread underground music from Johannesburg to Norway to New York and beyond. In this episode of Nike Sportswear and The FADER’s Pitch Perfect documentary, we catch up with ...