Sipho Hotstix Mabuse – Interview – Muse Online

Sipho Hotstix Mabuse will play at the Old Mutual Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concert for the first time this weekend. He earned his well placed nickname, Hotstix thanks to his talents as a young drummer in his early days. Following his fifty years in the live music industry he has seen and done many things; a…

Over 50 Speakers and Panelists confirmed for the 2013 Music Conference

Over 50 Speakers and Panelists confirmed for the 2013 Music Conference Music Exchange, South Africa’s 3rd Independent Music Conference that gets everyone in the music industry talking, is set to take place from 21-22 March, with an additional day confirmed for the 23 March 2013 for workshops (see list below for more details on workshops)….

JAZZ: African Nations Cup, tributes | Arts & Entertainment | BDlive

ONE interesting aspect of the African Nations Cup is how it profiles not only South African sport, but our culture, via its opening and closing ceremonies. Though torrential rain truncated Saturday’s opening, we saw enough to raise sharp questions about choices made in 2010, which shoved South African sounds to the margins. Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse…

Artists ready to stun at the Afcon opening – Sowetan LIVE

AFRICA’s biggest soccer spectacle, the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), will open with a star studded artist line-up on Saturday. One of the performers is heavily pregnant afro-pop singer Siphokazi Mohapi who says though she has little knowledge of soccer, she is honoured to be part of the line-up. “I am going to perform as…

You can’t keep a good man down | IMBO / ISSUE 9 / 2012

Four decades after dropping out of Grade 1 the legendary Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse went back to school and finished what he started. In a time where the education sector is in disrepute – with ministers not keeping their word and students destroying everything they can get their hands on during public holidays – he went…