If you’d been passing by the Playhouse a few weeks ago, you would have done a double take when you spotted the isicathamiya choirs, so beautifully turned out were the choir members! In fact what was once only a singing competition has now evolved into something much bigger with prizes awarded not only for the best … Read more
Abantu babewuthanda umculo futhi yayingekho imisakazo. Abantu babecula noma yingasiphi isikhathi, njengokuthi amantombazane uma eyokha amanzi oma eyotheza ayehamba ecula kanjalo nabafana noma amadoda uma eyozingela nawo ayecula. Umculo babewusebenzisa njengendlela yokuxhumana ngoba omunye umuntu wayezwa ngohlobo lweculo ukuthi kuyiwaphi aphume alandele labo. Kuthiwa uma beyotheza babenendlela ababebizana ngayo ehlathini, isibonelo uma kukhona omemezayo ebuza … Read more
Ijadu Ijadu uhlobo lwengoma noma ukusina olwenziwa uma kunomcimbi wesintu ekhaya ikakhulukazi, umcimbi othinta idlozi okungaba umemulo, umsebenzi wokubuyisa umnumzane wekhaya osewashona noma umshado. Ijadu luwuhlobo lwengoma engasheshi uma isinwa futhi namaculo akhona awasheshi ngoba lwaqalwa abantu abadala besilisa okwakuthi uma bezinamele kulowomcimbi noma bebonga impatho kulowomuzi abasuke bemenywe kuwo basine. Uma kuculwa iculo lejadu … Read more
Contents 1 Background 2 Genre Formation 3 Naming 4 Music career Retrospect Background Ladysmith Black Mambazo presents the traditional music of South Africa and is regarded as the country’s cultural emissary at home and around the world. In 1993, at Nelson Mandela’s request, Ladysmith Black Mambazo accompanied the future President to the Nobel Peace Prize … Read more
In the early part of the 1900’s the music that symbolised identification with Victorian values for Zulu speakers was imusic. Although essentially founded in European and American music, it was not simply a black imitation of Western metropolitan culture. Afro-American music and minstrelsongs, together with various other forms of musical comedy and black humour, played an important role … Read more
Madala Kunene was born in Cato Manor, Durban in 1951. He is Record producer, Musician, Singer, Guitarist commonly referred as the King of Zulu guitar. He began his musical career at the age of seven. Making his first guitar out of a cooking oil tin and fish gut for strings, he soon became a popular … Read more