Music Feature

Malala Fund, in partnership with the End Gender Apartheid Campaign, the Civic Engagement Project and Lawyers for Human Rights, will host a public roundtable at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The event brings together leading South African thinkers and members of Malala Fund’s Afghan Women’s Delegation for…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed former deputy minister of finance Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to the United States (US). Ramaphosa announced Jonas’ appointment as his special envoy to America in a statement on Monday morning, 14 April 2025. Jonas’ appointment comes as Pretoria continues to consider its options of…

Phemelo is in conversation with Director of the Parliamentary Budget Office, Dr Dumisani Jantjies who unpacks the parliamentary processes when it comes to VAT and how it is passed considering the current negotiations underway by the ANC and other parties.

Phemelo speaks to author, chef and food anthropologist, Dr Anna Trapido about a new African food and wine pairing menu that celebrates South African ingredients, cooking techniques, flavours and recipes and hospitality. The menu is in collaboration Johannesburg’s Saxon Hotel and African Foodways Production and Franschoek’s Leeu Paassant Wines.

In this week’s Music Feature, Musicologist Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal explores the art of the cover version.