A guide to South Africa’s 12th language – GELEZA!!
Did you know that Black Label beer is also known as 10111? Or that the latest BMW 330i BMW is known as “half past three”? Lebo Motshegoa, one of the visionary mfowethu’s behind Soweto Rocks, gives us another treasure all in the name of getting to understand each other better. In this case it’s an opportunity to really get into TOWNSHIP TALK and learn some street-taal. Get it from a book…store near you! For all those behind the times on Scamto, South Africa’s popular language of the streets, well here’s Township Talk Dictionary, a guide to South Africa’s 12th language, scamto. Geleza this dictionary and begin to frostun the language, the culture and the people of South Africa. Soon you’ll become a chizboy probably driving a G-string and sipping on Jesus & his Brothers, that’s J&B. Learn more with this Dictionary, compiled by Lebo Motshegoa, who compiled the first ever township glossary, titled Scamto Dictionary that won the much-coveted Loerie Awards in 2003 & 2004. The dictionary explores amongst other things, the history behind Township lingo. For example, the language emanated in Sophiatown in the 50 & 60s& it was known as Tsotsi Taal and was developed to ensure privacy between the boys and their ‘matharas’… Then the legacy continued and in the late 70s to 80s when “Mapantsula” came into the picture. Mapantsula were notorious for their rough nature and behavior… This dictionary tells how they wore expensive clothing and had expensive taste. Their girlfriends were known as Mshozas… The political uprisings of 1976 brought the realization for unity and common purpose in South Africa. The categorization of people based on their taste; company and patronage became a thing of the past… There was one common goal for all, and that was UNITY and the struggle for FREEDOM. Hence, another form of communication was born: Township lingo, fusing all South African languages into one. So when you do get a copy of the Township Talk Dictionary, expect to see words like regte, pluck, stompie, cherry, dom kop, chizboy, four five and many others that are spoken words in South African townships. The Township Talk Dictionary does not only include the A-Z of township lingo, it has included the street nicknames of di transie (cars), dice, street jargon for nyuku (money), words and phrases that give insight into urban black South Africans. No wonder it’s tag line is, the language – the culture – the people. This dictionary is truly hip to the...
01/09 – 04/09 :: UNYAZI – our 1st electro music festival
UNYAZI Festival of electronic music and sonic arts kicks off next week on the 1 – 4 September at WITS in Johananesburg with huge international guests and lots of locals too… The computer, the sampler, and the turntable. The new sound technologies embraced by the post-rave generation have linked them into a network of experimental and unconventional musicians going back to th…e electroacoustic pioneers of the 1960s. Over the last decade this explosion of creative collaboration between several generations of electronic musicians and sonic artists has been celebrated in a growing number of international events, such as the Sonar Festival in Barcelona and the Phonotaktik in Vienna. Now electronic music is coming to Johannesburg with the UNYAZI festival. NewMusicSA, the South African Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music, is proud to present UNYAZI – the first festival of electronic music and sonic arts in Africa. Over four days in September, top international musicians, teachers, and artists will be featured together with African musicians who are working in this field. Under the curatorship of South African composer Dimitri Voudouris, the festival will run from 1 – 4 September in Johannesburg at venues on the Wits University campus in Braamfontein, in association with the Digital Arts and Music Divisions of the Wits School of Arts. Funded principally by the National Arts Council of South Africa, the festival will feature the extraordinary range and variety of electronic musics from Africa and the rest of the world. UNYAZI will consist of -a symposium with presenters from Europe, the Americas and Africa, – workshops and live performances throughout each day of the Festival by some of the most well-known names in the sonic arts both internationally and nationally, from tape music to kwaito and everything in between. Come and experience legendary names such as the Egyptian Halim El-Dabh and American pioneer Pauline Oliveros in electrifying performances and workshops. A wealth of other composers and performers will come from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden,Zimbabwe and the USA – Rodrigo Sigal, Lukas Ligeti, Blake Tyson,Yannis Kyriakides, Matthew Ostrowski, Maxime Rioux, George Lewis , Luc Houtkamp+POW,Francisco Lopez,Sandra Ndebele,My Kingdom For A Lullabuy,Schnee Local electronic musicians will not be neglected. At Unyazi you can also catch performances by artists and composers from all over South Africa: Warrick Sony,Brendon Bussy,Louis Moholo,James Webb (Cape Town), Theo Herbst and the KEMUS Ensemble (Stellenbosch), Sazi Dlamini, Jýrgen Brýuninger + Sazi Dlamini and Zim Ngqwana (Durban), and Carlo Mombelli, Joýo Orecchia, Skwatta Kamp, Pops Mohammed, Rheza Khota, James Sey, Skid, Chris Wood and Dimitri Voudouris (Johannesburg). Workshops will be conducted by Blake Tyson , Pauline Oliveros,...
25/08 – 27/08 :: Joy of Jazz – some FREE SHOWS in Newtown!
UPDATE! The JOBURG LEG of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival kicks off on the 25 August and continues until the 27 August… If you don’t know what’s going on CLICK HERE for the program and HERE for COMPUTICKET to reserve your seats for the paying shows – HURRY! There are free shows at Nikk…i’s Oasis and Shivava’s – see the program – but get there early! ———————————————————— 21 July 2005 Joy of Jazz is back in August with two big concerts in Johannesburg and Cape Town featuring three hot and happening Jazz muso’s… two guitarists and a saxophonist. GO GO GO! Legendary Jazz maestro’s Dave Koz, Lee Ritenour and Stanley Jordan are heading to South Africa this August, for the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival series. The tour kicks off on the 25th at the Standard Bank Arena in Johannesburg, featuring Dave Koz and Lee Ritenour and then heads south to the Cape Town International Convention Centre on the 28th where all 3 artists will be performing. Dave Koz, the latest contender for the instrumental pop saxophone throne, came out of nowhere after his self-titled 1990 release made it onto the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts and stayed there several weeks. He work has been described and fiery and intense, and he also played on Arsenio Hall’s show, which increased his popularity among the urban contemporary, light jazz and pop audience. Koz plays instrumental pop covers, some upbeat tunes and generally sticks to the fusion production formula; background vocalists, synthesizers and drum machines. Lee Ritenour has long been the perfect studio musician, one who can melt into the background without making any impact. While he possesses impressive technique, Ritenour has mostly played instrumental pop throughout his career, sometimes with a Brazilian flavor. After touring with Sergio Mendes’ Brazil ’77, in 1973, Ritenour became a very busy studio guitarist in Los Angeles, taking time off for occasional tours with his groups and in the mid-’90s with Bob James in Fourplay. Stanley Jordan’s discovery in the early ’80s rightfully earned a lot of headlines in the jazz world for he came up with a new way of playing guitar. Although he was not the first to use tapping, Jordan’s extensive expertise gave him the ability to play two completely independent lines on the guitar or, when he wanted, two guitars at a time. After graduating from Princeton in 1981, Jordan played for a time on the streets of New York. Soon he was discovered, had the opportunity to play with Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie and, after recording a solo album for his own Tangent label, signed with Blue...
The diminutive rapper is coming – EVE is on the way!!!
EVE is in the house!!!! She is known as the ‘pitbull in a skirt’. Though her lyrics are hardcore, she is undoubtedly one of the most strikingly sexy female rap artists.. and she is coming to Jozi to perform alongside Busta Rhymes at the Joburg Arts Alive International Festival at the Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday 3rd September. Discovered by star-maker and p…rominent producer Dr. Dre when she was just 18, Philadelphian Eve (alias Eve Jeffers) found a home at hardcore label Ruff Ryders in 1999 and made a break into the male-dominated hip hop industry with the album Eve: Ruff Ryders’ First Lady. She made her significant mark with the album Let There Be Eve, followed by Scorpion and Eve-olution. With hit songs like Gangsta Lovin, Gotta Man and Blow Your Mind, Eve will be blazing alongside ingenuous rapper Busta Rhymes and hot local acts PROkid and KB. While Busta Rhymes will be ‘making it clap’, potent battle MCee PROkid and hot vocalist KB will be holding it down for the phenomenal local music scene. The annual Joburg Arts Alive International Festival springs to life on Thursday 1st September and runs to Sunday 4th September 2005 across various venues in Johannesburg; and features a wide array of cultural art forms including music, visual art, theatre, spoken word, comedy and dance, delivered by the finest South African, African and international artists. The festival line up includes Freedom to Dance; Africa Unites in Newtown featuring African jazz and world music acts from around the continent; Jozi Spring Celebration, Comedy Nine Nine, Jozi Rocks, Jazz on the Lake, Spiritual Experience, two theatre productions – Sophiatown and Bling and Festival of Dance amongst others. Tickets for the LIVE IN JOZI concert with Eve, Busta Rhymes, PROkid and KB are on sale at Computicket outlets nationwide from R150....
Your chance to let 5fm know what you really want!
For once you get to choose what you hear on 5fm – that will be a unique experience. It’s their birthday and they’re saying SCREW THE PLAYLIST – We’re saying does it only have to be on the 13th of October? Maybe this is a sneaky ploy to find out what their listeners really want??? Whatever it is, make the most of it! There are prizes to be won.CL… ICK HERE FOR 5FM How about everyone sends in requests for good local music ONLY – some ideas of bands that we don’t hear enough of on 5’ve: Brikz, Kwani Experience, Cassette, T’zozo en Professor, KB, Airship Orange, MXO, Fokofpolisiecar, Fuzigish, Kabelo and many many more hot and happening Spring bands???? OH ja, and you can also win prizes: For a long, long time, 5FM has stuck to our formula. We’ve researched and refined, we’ve consulted and complied. We’ve delivered the tunes we know YOU like, but we’ve always decided which ones to play. This year, just for one day – our birthday on the 13th of October – we’re trying something new. We’re saying… SCREW the Playlist! On October 13th 5fm and Nashua Mobile give you the chance to Screw the Playlist. Keep listening for details. And with Nashua Mobile win one of 13 Motorola V3 RAZR with the choice of Network Starter Pack on either Cell C, MTN or Vodacom. Each prize is valued at R2000, on the Network Starter Pack of your choice. We’re gagging the Programme Manager We’re switching off the computer For one day only- October 13th- what we play is up to you 13 songs an hour for 13 hours – its all up to you! Make your choice – sms happy birthday to 33345 We don’t care what it is – if it gets votes, we’ll play it. It’s our birthday – so Screw the Playlist! No one else gives you that much choice, because they don’t care as much as we do Screw the Playlist – because it’s our birthday – and we’re dong this because we can. If you send in your vote to 33345, you could win a one of 13 Motorola V3 RAZR. So get voting and...
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