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Matshediso Mholo
Matshediso Florence Mholo is a South African artist and activist and a member of the multi-platinum Afro-pop group Malaika. Musical career Mholo met fellow group members Bongani Nchang and the late Jabulani Ndaba in a church choir in 2003, while teaching music and drama at the Mabana Cultural Centre in Mmabatho. Charity work Mholo has been involved in a number of campaigns on behalf of orphans (especially AIDS orphans) and abused women. She is also an Aids activist and was voluntarily tested for HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ... in October 2006 an attempt to set an example. References External links * http://www.women24.com/Women24v2/ContentDisplay/w24v2_ArticleCapture/0,,11312,00.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20080515191134/http://www.malaikasa.co. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Popular Music
African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop or Afro pop), like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, afrobeats, salsa, zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by enslaved Africans. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock, and rhythm and blues. Likewise, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly the musical instruments and recording studio techniques of western music. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound but is used as a general term for African popular music. Influence of Afro-Cuban music Cuban music has been popular in Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-twentieth century. It was Cuban music, more than any other, that provided the initial template for Afropop. To the Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaika (Group)
Malaika is a South African Afro-pop music group, which has been described as post- mbaqanga and neo-soul. The group consists of musicians Bongani Nchang and the late Jabulani Ndaba (both born in Klerksdorp, South Africa), and Matshediso Mholo (born in Lichtenburg). Malaika are probably best-known for their breakthrough hit "Destiny", and is considered among fans to be their signature song. The group toured Australia from 6–9 March 2008 with ''Australian Idol 2007'' finalist Tarisai Vushe as the supporting act. Accolades * Kora Awards Best Newcomer Group (2004) for Malaika and Best Southern Group (2005) for Vuthelani * SAMA Most Popular Artists of the Year, and Most Popular Song of the Year * 2005 Channel O Music Video Awards – Best Afro-Pop Group * Metro FM Music Awards – Best Afro-Pop Album, Best Group, Best Album *2006 Channel O Music Video Awards Channel O Africa Music Video Awards, once known as Spirit of Africa Music Video Awards, are Pan-African music awards org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bongani Nchang
Knysna () is a town with 76,150 inhabitants (2019 mid-year estimates) in the Western Cape province of South Africa. and is one of the destinations on the loosely defined Garden Route tourist route. It lies at 34° 2' 6.3168'' S and 23° 2' 47.2884'' E., and is situated 60 kilometres east of the city of George on the N2 highway, and 33 kilometres west of the Plettenberg Bay on the same road. History Early history Forty fossilised hominid footprints, dating to about 90,000 years ago, along with various other archaeological discoveries suggest that humans have lived in Knysna for well over 300,000 years. The first of these were various San Hunter-gatherer peoples who inhabited most of Southern Africa in paleolithic. The San were gradually displaced and absorbed by south migrating Khoekhoe peoples. Houtunqua (Outeniqua) Khoe The indigenous inhabitants of the Knysna area are a southern Khoekhoe people called the Houtunqua or Outeniqua. Their name means "The People Who Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabulani Ndaba
Jabulani is a Zulu word meaning "rejoice". It is often used as a first name, and in that context is often shortened to "Jabu". People * Jabulani Dubazana (born 1954), vocalist from Ladysmith Black Mambazo * Jabulani Dube, Zimbabwean politician * Jabulani Maluleke (born 1982), South African footballer * Jabulani Mnguni (born 1972), South African footballer * Jabu Moleketi (born 1957), South African politician * Jabulani Ncubeni (born 1992), South African footballer * Jabulani Shongwe (born 1990), South African footballer * Jabulani Sibanda, Zimbabwean war veteran leader * Jabulani Newby (born 1991), Canadian basketball player Other uses * Adidas Jabulani The Jabulani ( , ) was a ball (association football), football manufactured by Adidas. It was the List of FIFA World Cup official match balls, official match ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The ball is made from eight spherically moulded panels ..., the match ball used in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held in South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mmabatho
Mmabatho ( Tswana for "Mother of the People") is the former capital of the North-West Province of South Africa. During the apartheid era, it was the capital of the former "Bantustan" of Bophuthatswana. Following the end of apartheid in 1994, Bophuthatswana was integrated into the newly established North-West Province and Mmabatho was proclaimed the provincial capital. However, Mmabatho's status as the provincial capital was short-lived. Later in 1994, the North West provincial legislature voted to rename the capital to Mahikeng (the town of Mafikeng having been merged with Mmabatho in 1980 and treated as a suburb of Mmabatho between 1980 and 1994), reducing Mmabatho to a suburb of Mafikeng. Mmabatho contains many provincial government buildings, a shopping complex called Mega City and a Sports Stadium formerly called the Independence Stadium. The North-West University, formerly the University of Bophuthatswana, is located in Mmabatho. Situated just south of the Botswana border ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual may not notice any symptoms, or may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. Typically, this is followed by a prolonged incubation period with no symptoms. If the infection progresses, it interferes more with the immune system, increasing the risk of developing common infections such as tuberculosis, as well as other opportunistic infections, and tumors which are rare in people who have normal immune function. These late symptoms of infection are referred to as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This stage is often also associated with unintended weight loss. HIV is spread primarily by unprotected sex (including anal and vaginal sex), contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Musicians
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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