On 17 November, The Geraas Music Awards (GMT) will once again shine the spotlight on the very best in Afrikaans music. After the huge success of the first GMT in 2001, entries are being invited across ...

The rise of the De la Rey phenomenon has thrust Afrikaans music back into the spotlight, but the discussion seems to centre on Chris Chameleon’s release of English and Afrikaans albums, Steve ...

Cape Town - Tencent Africa’s brand new music streaming app JOOX, that enables South Africans to conveniently discover and listen to music wherever they are, is now also jam-packed with Afrikaans music ...

Newly launched from Media24 Family Magazines is Huisgenoot Tempo, a quarterly magazine dedicated especially to Afrikaans music. It is edited by Esmaré Weideman, editor of Huisgenoot, You and Drum.

Listener-driven radio (LDR) is helping the Afrikaans music scene grow and thrive through Ja.fm, an online radio station provided by Kagiso Media's Jacaranda FM. The technology is being endorsed by ...

The long-awaited Afrikaans Hip Hop Rap Battle makes a comeback to Rehoboth next month, promising a night of rhythm, rhyme, and raw creativity.Slated for 5 December, the second edition of the event ...

Die Skynmaagde juxtapose the banal from Afrikaans music knowingly and playfully with Marxist concepts and communist heroes, writes Charles Leonard.

As every sokkie superstar knows, nothing rhymes with Afrikaans like babataal. Arno finds those elusive monosyllabic rhinestones with ease, making the words “Na na na”, “La la la ley” and “Hey yadi ho” ...