Spotify's Wrapped 2025 results are in, and South Africa has made one thing clear: this was the year of local heroes.

The Tutus describe themselves as "a little pop 'n roll kwela disco punk band from Pretoria," and their songs are finely drawn vignettes about what it is to be young and living in a small South African ...

It’s tempting to make the grand claim that, with the release of Mannenberg in 1974, Dollar Brand brought jazz back to Africa. Or at least back to Cape Town. Prior to its release, the jazz musicians of ...