Mzuzephi Mathebula, or Nongolza, was a migrant worker who moved up north from the KZN during the late 1800s, presumably to eke out a living. He managed to do more than just that; he formed a band of ...

Pantsula dance became the talk of Soweto last weekend when the first pantsula informal dance competitiontook place at the Soweto Pantsula Street Dance Tour. The competition was organised by the group ...

Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ...

Arts journalist Adrienne Sichel says pantsula is "very much an urban South African dance form". Pantsula is the language of the township. Complicated rhythmic formations, gangster swagger and ...

For 30 years, beginning in the 1980s, the South African dance pantsula has grown in popularity in the black townships surrounding Johannesburg, but it's only become a mainstay of the capital city’s ...

Johannesburg - Pantsula, the energetic street-dance form that came to prominence in the 1980s, is being celebrated and documented for the first time in its history in a 200-page photobook, Pantsula: ...

Some people will tell you that the internet killed style subcultures-or a least turned them into a global, universally accessible phenomenon. We say that’s bullshit. Even as the world is shrinking, ...

Mandlakayise Street in Kagiso was the place to be when Soweto’s Perfect-Storm crew pocketed the second prize of R20 000. Image and words by Keotshepile wa Mogotsi. In an era where street dancing has ...

In the South African township of Thembisa, one local dance academy has taken a style invented by gangsters - Pantsula- and is using it to help young people in the area earn money and qualify for ...

Growing up, Vusi Mdoyi was amazed by the vibrant culture of Pantsula and its unique dance. Determined to bring it to the mainstream he performed on the world’s largest stages. Show more With ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ask a pantsula how long he’s been dancing, and he’ll pause. Not because he’s doing the math-he’s just trying to remember that far ...