African Music Treasures | Voice Of America

A few days ago I caught wind of some music news in South Africa. The legendary musician Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse just “dropped” a new hit; but the “hit” wasn’t music, and the verb wasn’t “drop”–it was “pass”. At age 61, Sipho had just passed the matric, the equivalent to the US high school diploma. Sipho…

Talk Radio 702 Presents Solid Gold Concert In The Park

Date: Saturday 18 August 2012 Time: Starts at 11:00 Gates open at 09:00 Venue: Johannesburg Botanical Gardens, Emmarentia Tickets: On sale at Computicket R150 for adults (13 yrs upwards) R50 for children (3 – 13 yrs old) Children younger than two years old enter for free. Food: Snack vendors, beer and soft drinks will be…

Onder vier oë: Inspirasie vir ’n nasie | Beeld

Op ’n dag verlede jaar het die musikant Sipho (Hotstix) Mabuse verby die hoërskool naby sy huis in Soweto gery. ’n Bord het sy aandag getrek: Skryf in vir gr. 12. Daar en dan het hy omgedraai en by die Peter Lengene-onderwyssentrum vir volwassenes gaan aanmeld, want dit het altyd gehaper dat hy nooit sy…

Brian, My Web Guy

Brian Currin is known to many of his friends and clients as “My Web Guy” and to a number of people all over the world as “a guy who knows a bit about music“. A few of his recent and current projects include: Sixto “Sugar Man” Rodriguez Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse Triple M Entertainment All Jazz…

Sipho Mabuse meets Kgalema Motlanthe

Sipho Mabuse meets the Honourable Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe at LeadSA second anniversary breakfast Friday 3 August 2012

Radio interview with Robin Lustig on BBC World Service

  BBC World Service Radio’s flagship news and current affairs programme, Newshour. Radio interview with Robin Lustig The BBC World Service is the BBC’s international radio station. It is broadcast to every country in the world in 32 languages and has a listenership of 43 million to its English language network each week. It has…