Getting together to experience music can feel transcendent, whether you're raising your voice in song at your place of worship or you're dancing all night long at the club. With History of House, a ...

Lungile Siyaphi was crowned Miss Soweto 2025 at the 46th White Star pageant, an evening filled with elegance, talent, and inspiration, celebrating womanhood, community, and leadership in Soweto.

We meet on a sunny morning at Lebo’s Backpackers in Orlando West. The place is buzzing: music is playing and tourists are heading off to see the sights of Soweto on bicycles and tuk-tuks. Maria Malepa ...

The Soweto Greendale House, in partnership with Ekujabuleni Kwabantwana Home of Care, hosted a heritage celebration event at Soweto Hospice on September 24. The day saw the Mphatlalatsane Cultural ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The Soweto Gospel Choir brightened Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall with their energy and ...

The Soweto Gospel Choir releases three singles, continues ‘Hope” tour in the U.S. *“I’m a founding member….23 years in the choir,” said Soweto Gospel Choir Master Shimmy Jiyane as we talked about the ...

The 2025 African Bank Soweto Marathon welcomed 18,000 participants from across South Africa and beyond, with Joseph Seutloali ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

As World Cup 2010 draws to a close this week in South Africa, we look closely at “Soweto,” a new book by the South African photographer Jodi Bieber. Over lunch at 4 Times Square in May, Bieber told me ...