Kwaito
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Search complete. 26 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Kwaito".
Oct 20, 2026
Nota BaloyiHOST
No, no, but I mean you beat break and tell us what's in the song and the lyrics that are there.
SfisoHOST
The song is a typical Kwaito beat.
SfisoHOST
You know, typical Kwaito beat like-
Nota BaloyiHOST
I heard a song like that
SfisoHOST
... something like [beatbox]
Nota BaloyiHOST
He played for me.
Nota BaloyiHOST
Scotch Maphuma is on a song.
Nota BaloyiHOST
It's a Kwaito song.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
I mean, even the music, so even the music that my dad and his bands were doing back then, was mostly music that was about the hard times, the challenges and so forth.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
But then when Kwaito was introduced, I think it was now a form of a new genre that was then going to be communicating to us, you know, to the younger generation, that we were not fighting about it anymore, but it was the change of language, basically giving us something to celebrate, you know, the overcoming and also kind of like talking about the future, looking where to from now.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
You know, so I kind of like started falling in love with quite, I mean, quite a lot of things.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
I think it started around 1995, 1994.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
But then I got introduced to Kwaito in 1996 and 1997.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
And that's when I started slowly changing, you know, even the touch of how I play piano started.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
I was quite inspired by Don Laka actually quite a lot because Don Laka was a jazz pianist.
Thulani HeadmanGUEST
However, he was a jazz pianist that was producing Kwaito.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
I think if we start going back to our basics as a country individually, we can start to build up the country better.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
If you think of Kwaito back in the day, how we valued Kwaito, how Kwaito was supported.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
I see artists now is how can brands now go back to the nostalgic view of supporting the same artists that made us be where we are.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
During apartheid, we were saved by artists.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
I think if we start going back to our basics as a country individually, we can start to build up the country.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
If you think of Kwaito back in the day, how we valued Kwaito, how Kwaito was supported.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
I see artists now is how can brands now go back to the nostalgic view of supporting the same artists that made us be where we are.
Tumelo ChakaGUEST
During apartheid, we were saved by artists.
Johnny CleggSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The concept of the noble savage, I think he was really taken with that.
Johnny CleggSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He had a lot of African music in his collection, and his favorite music was Kwaito music, Penny Whistle music.
Johnny CleggSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was seeking.
Johnny CleggSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was on a long journey, a spiritual journey of his own, and that kind of rubbed off on me.
Kabelo MabalaneGUEST
At the age of 19, I was a rock.
Kabelo MabalaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
TKZ, Kwaito,
Kabelo MabalaneGUEST
the Golden
Kabelo MabalaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Heroes.
TrésorGUEST
... you know, out of a township.
TrésorGUEST
There's Makhadi, there's Amapiano, there was Kwaito.
TrésorGUEST
You know, there's...
TrésorGUEST
You know, but I'm fond of, like, different sound from KZN, from, um, [lips smack] uh, from Limpopo, from, you know, from the townships in Soweto, you know.
KarasHOST
Yeah
Don DadaHOST
Okay was it Kwaito? Ha time
KarasHOST
Yeah Kwaito
Don DadaHOST
Nge ngoma netuk' zinganga, FC Mile, Mbongane Fasi
KarasHOST
Hayi we
Clement ManyathelaHOST
can try and hide and hide, but it will meet up with you at some point.
Clement ManyathelaHOST
What is it about Kwaito there? Because a lot of people, when they think of Kwaito, they often remember it for the parties, the fashion, the energy.
Clement ManyathelaHOST
But the music was always being made by young South Africans trying to define themselves in a very new country, if you will, especially your era at the time.
Clement ManyathelaHOST
What is it about Kwaito that really attracted you? Because, my goodness, you guys really did shape culture through that music.
Clement ManyathelaHOST
And I mean, when we listened to that, it was so encouraging.
Clement ManyathelaHOST
But it was also like, and for guys that went to Saints, but you also spoke to boys from the township, you know, and you gave them encouragement and you said you can dream and it's possible.
Clement ManyathelaHOST
I want to know that relationship you have with Kwaito and why Kwaito? So that's a very good
Kabelo MabalaneGUEST
question.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
I'm just saying in terms of like a sort of certain genre, you see, I see dance music is doing well.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
Dance music was always there and it seems to be, you know, now, as you put it, the Kwaito is massive and all of that.
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
And then there's, you know, the stuff around...
Mbuyiseni NdloziHOST
I mean, not quite, my piano is massive and it has captured the world with a fire.