Sbu 'Malawyer' Nthsangase on kwaito's beginnings

JUL 30 2025

A long conversation with a kwaito pioneer who met Arthur Mafokate at Blue Street Studios in the late 1980s, a room run by the engineer Julia Mabika. It reaches back before kwaito had a name, to the studios where imported house records were being remade for South African dancefloors.