South Africa's Most Wanted
ThinkAfricaPress investigates the rap sheets on some of South Africa's best known musicians and performers.
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South Africa:
Tune Me What - South Africa's Most Wanted
ThinkAfricaPress, 20 August 2014
Nelson Mandela once said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. South African musicians may therefore know more than a thing or two about the… Read more »
Jack Parow.
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South Africa:
'Resurrected Kwazulu-Natal Artist' Questioned
SAPA, 6 February 2012
A man claiming to be resurrected maskandi artist Khulekani Kwakhe "Mgqumeni" Mseleku will appear in the Nquthu Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. Read more »
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South Africa:
Mandela's Praise Singer Arrested
Sunday Times, 16 March 2003
NELSON Mandela's most famous praise singer- the "poet laureate" who performed at his inauguration and around the world - will stand trial for tax evasion alongside the son of the… Read more »
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South Africa:
Mzwakhe Mbuli: People's robber?
Mail & Guardian, 31 October 1997
Could Mzwakhe Mbuli, charismatic grassroots liberation figure, poet and musician, be leading a double life as a bank robber? Impossible, say several leading South African… Read more »
InFocus
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Kwaito music star Mkhonzeni Langa, popularly known as Professor, has been fined R3,000 or one month in prison for wearing a metro police uniform to the Metro FM Music Awards. Read more »