The last time I witnessed something close to the current dance craze of last year’s South African hit song Jerusalema by Master KG and Nomcebo Zikode I was a schoolboy. The breakdance was the in-thing ...

Staff and members of Parliament led by Majority and Minority leaders Amos Kimunya and John Mbadi, respectively, practice Jerusalema challenge at Parliament Buildings in October 2020. [David Njaaga, ...

While international film and TV shoots have been halted in South Africa for the past six months due to a ban on foreign flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the local industry have found a ...

The Dingle Coast Guard filmed their own take on the viral #Jerusalema dance challenge, but have since been told by upper management that they cannot "produce dance videos for social media." The Dingle ...

Through the University of Fort Hare, Akhona Ndzuta receives funding from the NRF. Apart from the song’s omnipresence on the sound systems of a cross-section of socio-economic neighbourhoods across ...

Just around 10 million people speak isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. So how did a song in the little-known dialect become a hit with billions of people around the world? The song in question ...

One night in 2019, DJ Kgaogelo Moagi, better known as Master KG, called up singer Nomcebo to come to his Johannesburg studio to record a song. “‘But it’s very late,’” Nomcebo recalled telling him.

Many are trying to figure out what makes Jerusalema so exceptional in its popularity. A frequent question in my social circles is, why this song? South African musician Kgaogelo Moagi known as Master ...