Only the strong survive Khayelitsha. If you make the wrong choices, the place will eat you alive. Rattex (aka Rah), but Thabo Tetwa to his mom, has risen from the dust to give voice to the challenges of kasi life. Spitting his rugged rhymes in a combination of isiXhosa, English and spaza, he raps from the heart, laying down tracks that grab the South African reality by the neck. Like the poison from which he takes his name, he is quick to act and dangerous on the mic.

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Michelangelo & Picasso tapped into their lives, and the world around them, to draw inspiration for art on walls, on church ceilings and even canvasses. Meet an artist who is changing the world around him to inspire our lives, and the cityscape around us. One man, one can. One man who makes the difference between a meaningless squirt of colour on a concrete wall and a spray can painting that inspires the kidz to take up the can.

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Mr. Musa Nxumalo sees the world in black-and-white and every other shade of grey…sometimes even in colour. Just don’t ask him about his influences. If the only thing you want to talk about is his love of Joy Division, the Wombats and/or Fokofpolisiekar and how a black kid from the township can channel these references into his black-and-white, rock-and-roll inspired photography, then you will most probably find another clichéd repeat answer from this stereotype-busting, shooting-from-the-gut, this-is-my-life, man, image maker - from Soweto.

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It’s in the taste of masala, the mix of strongly flavoured individuals who each bring their unique point of view into the sound of the Kwani Experience. African Folk, Contemporary African, Hip-Hop, Soul, Jazz, Experimental Jazz (Drum & Bass) and Funk. That’s the field of genres you’d be toiling, if you were trying to identify the Cape/Burg DNA of this unique Jo’burg sound.

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Leading the new school of BPMs, this is the pied piper of the airwaves who spins the tracks we love. You can follow him, on air, preaching the gospel of dance to the listeners of one of the biggest radio stations in South Africa, or on any given Saturday on a thumping sprung floor in downtown Johannesburg with the rest of the folks from Hamlin. In two words? Strictly Rhythm.

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