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In 2021 Matheba, 35, relocated to New York. It was around this time that she announced she’d terminated her contract with global agency and celebrity management group Celebrity Services Africa (CSA). What followed was a multimillion-rand legal battle over the ownership of her sparkling wine, House of BNG. ....
Twenty years ago Lebo Mathosa emerged as a solo artist with her debut Dream. On Mathosa’s solo album, we see her hit the brakes on the political and begin to focus on the internal. Revisiting the work 20 years later allows us to look specifically at the music and the ways Mathosa played with genre – a characteristic of kwaito music. Many songs before South Africa’s democracy were explicitly political. This was obviously inspired by the anti-apartheid movement and more particularly the cultural boycotts that intensified in the 1980s. Freedom songs became the soundtrack of heightened resistance. This culture continues to penetrate South Africa’s music scene – in between anthems that invite shameless debauchery, especially during the festive season. ....