According to AFP, reported by TimesLIVE, police cracked down on protests in the country on Friday, with award-winning novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among those arrested.

Rapper AKA has vented his frustration about the alleged crackdown on anti-corruption protests in Zimbabwe, adding that too many South Africans are worried about the Black Lives Matter movement overseas to notice the alleged injustice on their own doorstep.

According to AFP, reported by TimesLIVE, police cracked down on protests in the country on Friday, with award-winning novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among those arrested.

Authorities have banned the demonstrations, which were held on the second anniversary of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election, to address alleged state corruption and the country’s collapsing economy.

“Imagine your fellow Africans are too busy focused on #BLM happening 15,000km away to care about those very same black lives next door. Black is King my a**. Stay strong Zimbabwe,” he wrote.

Musician Zakes Bantwini also called for unity in the fight against corruption on the continent.As the conversation dominated Twitter, topping the local trends list, Zakes hit back at a follower who claimed he only spoke out on matters outside of SA, and ignored injustice within our own borders.

“With so much against us already as black Africans, all we have is each other. Let’s not be against one another,” he wrote.

“The aftermath of a crisis in Zimbabwe is a crisis for SA in many ways. Our own government should be looking at it that way,” he said.

The star went on to criticise South Africans who he claimed were too focused on the Black Lives Matter movement overseas to notice the struggles of their neighbours.

DJ Tira is completely hyped about the month of August and let it known on his social media pages as we all welcomed August 1st.

On Twitter, the leader of Ezase Afro made affirmations about the month and we can all hope that his dreams come true. Especially, item number 3 on his wish list.

The first was to remind us that August is his birthday month, and we should all get ready to have fun.

Second was to announce the availability of his new album, “21 Years of DJ Tira,” being available for pre-order sales. And from the samples already played from the album, it promises to be a banger.

South African musician and producer, Cassper Nyovest, posted on his Instagram page that his papa has died.

Details of his death are not yet publicly known. The news comes just minutes after the rapper announced that he was going to be a guest judge on Idols SA.

Some celebrations don’t always go as planned on Idols SA, as Siwaphiwe finds out in this moment of unscripted embarrassment!

“This is because ’Idols SA’ is back and we are really excited about the show – from the wooden mic, right up to the live shows.

This year’s auditions were filmed before lockdown in March in four cities – Pretoria, Durban, Jo’burg and Cape Town.

Singer Rethabile Khumalo says the Prince Kaybee collaboration is still happening.
Excitement over Rethabile Khumalo’s latest collaboration with Prince Kaybee was stopped in its tracks this week when another, relatively unknown producer claimed that Rethabile had written the same song for him.It all started when, in his excitement, Prince Kaybee shared a snippet of an unreleased song he and Rethabile, who is Winnie Khumalo’s daughter, had created.

The song was recorded for Kaybee’s upcoming album and had the working title Isivunguvungu.

The song got fans excited but also grabbed producer DJ Trumpet’s attention.

He claimed that the song was originally his and was therefore “stolen” by Kaybee and Rethabile.
The song was recorded for Kaybee’s upcoming album and had the working title Isivunguvungu.

The song got fans excited but also grabbed producer DJ Trumpet’s attention.

He claimed that the song was originally his and was therefore “stolen” by Kaybee and Rethabile.

Speaking to TshisaLIVE Rethabile cleared the air, explaining that she had recorded vocals on DJ Trumpet’s beat but the collab fell apart and she took the vocals to Kaybee’s song.

“The thing is as an artist you work on music over a long period of time and sometimes it doesn’t work out with a certain producer or vocalist. That is kind of what happened here, myself and that producer (Trumpet) came together to work on a song. He had his beats and I came with the lyrics and the vocals but then it didn’t work out.

“So he took his beats to work with someone and I didn’t have a problem … because they belong to him. But now that I have grown as an artist and I’m working with big brands such as Prince Kaybee, he’s trying to drag my name,” she said.
“The good news is that Kaybee and I, we’re good now, and the song is still on track for release.”

Rethabile, who is still riding the wave of her hit song Umlilo, explained that the new song will be coming out soon, on both hers and Prince Kaybee’s album.

“I’ve been hustling to get here in my career for a long time. From my days of trying to be an Idol to going to competitions like The Voice, I have been working hard for a moment in my career such as this and I won’t allow anyone to stop my shine.

“The song will be released and people are going to love it! My album is also ready just waiting for the right time to drop it.”