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.

Nomcebo Zikode, the South African singer of the pandemic hit “Jerusalema” that inspired a global dance challenge, wrote the chorus while battling her own depression. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from ...

Shazam, an application that can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device, on Tuesday announced that Master KG’s ...

Artist Master KG, dances to Jerusalema in Johannesburg, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. South Africans of all walks of life are dancing to the rousing anthem, which has sparked a global trend, to lift their ...

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 ...

Helmer Ralph Ziman’s “Jerusalema” is South Africa’s submission for consideration in the foreign film category at the Oscars, while helmer Maris Martinsons’ debut feature, “Loss,” will represent ...

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 ...

An order of Irish nuns at an enclosed monastery has become the latest group to take on the viral Jerusalema dance challenge made famous by An Garda Síochána last month. The Redemptoristine Nuns at the ...

What began as a unifying anthem during the uncertainty of 2020 has spiraled into one of South Africa’s most high-profile music disputes. Jerusalema—the gospel-influenced house hit whose infectious ...

The Jerusalema Dance Challenge has made its way to Woodland Park. A global sensation, the challenge involves a few basic steps in a three-minute dance set to the same music for all. “It’s time to have ...