Battlin’
by Andy Davis / 11.06.2013 Night time in Soweto, long hours past the daylight curfew for whiteys, we navigate the M1 South to the Nasrec turn off and then the Golden Highway, jamming right into3


Don’t Worry about the Hangover
by Ts’eliso Monaheng / 10.06.2013 We drove from Jozi central, me and my cohort. We on-ramped onto the M3 South, then thumb-sucked our way through the fast-enveloping darkness. After a clueless crusade through Eldorado Park,

isPantsula Roots Mixtape
by Kimon de Greef / 31.05.2013 To get you in the mood for tomorrow’s battle, start your day with some vintage sounds from the SA township dance scene from 1960 til around 1980. This

Dance Egos
by Ray van Wyk / 30.05.2013 There are few places in the world that can make you feel more out of touch than on a dancefloor. Out there, surrounded by so many critical eyes, you can

Rhyme and Reason
by Ts'eliso Monaheng / 27.05.2013 Reason Lebaka has been busy over the past year. Ever since Tumi Molekane signed him to his Motif imprint (also home to Zaki Ibrahim and Samthing Soweto – formerly of

Via Volcano
by Rob Scher / Images by Sydelle Willow Smith / 23.05.2013 Visiting Krugersdorp for the first time is like taking a trip through time to the the old Transvaal. Our connection to the crew, William, said he’d meet us by the

The Indigenous Dance Academy
by Rob Scher / Images by Sydelle Willow Smith / 15.05.2013 Dance academy – the words inspire images of hardwood floors, wall-length mirrors and torrid love affairs between privileged white girls and boys ‘from the wrong side of the tracks’. Pulling

Old Skool B-Boy Toolkit
by Dj Azuhl / 10.05.2013 Want to pop and lock like a pro? How tight are your suicides? DJ Azuhl has been spinning hip hop beats for the b-boys to clown around to since way

Mapantsula
by Ts'eliso Monaheng / 02.05.2013 Poloko lives on the outskirts of Joburg with his grandmother and two younger sisters. At twenty years young, he’s seen first-hand all the ills of kasi life eMzansi. Up until

