Unlike the remaining founding member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Albert Mazibuko, Mahotella Queens’ last original member, Hilda Tloubatla, still tours internationally with the band for performances.

Mahotella Queens are soon to represent South Africa at the World Music Festival in Hokkaido, Japan. The show, which will host over 30,000 attendees between August 5 and 11, was sponsored in part by ...

Mbaqanga icon Hilda Tloubatla (84) reflects on more than 60 years of God’s grace and her legendary journey with Gallo Records. We caught up with Hilda at the Gallo Records’ 100th birthday celebration.

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BBC Archive: South African Mbaqanga group, The Mahotella Queens, performing Jive Mahotella at the 2015 WOMAD festival 2015: The Mahotella Queens: Jive Mahotella. Video, 00:03:442015: The Mahotella ...

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The ecstatic singing of the Mahotella Queens is the sound of life. Coalescing in the 1960s alongside South Africa’s nascent anti-apartheid movement, the trio’s mbaqanga style (literally, “a ...

Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queen, pioneers and now torch-bearers for the 1960s mbaqanga sound of Soweto, were one of the first African bands to rock my world. When Sean Barlow and I first went to ...

Say what you will about Paul Simon`s ”Graceland” album or his recent semi-disastrous South African tour, he did accomplish one thing. Until Simon introduced the South African black township sound ...

In our latest antidote to the algorithm, Stephanie Phillips guides us through the South African girl groups who resisted apartheid oppression through the joy of their song Rachel Aggs takes Stephanie ...