


Nakhane Toure’s Another Country
Nakhane Toure, who won the Best Alternative South African Music Award for his debut album, Brave Confusion, starts his 2015 gigging in Johannesburg by sharing a stage with Eastern Cape homeboy Bongeziwe Mabandla tonight. The Con’s Niren Tolsi asked him a few questions in anticipation: The Con (TC): What have you been doing […]

The Con Declares the South African Music Awards ‘Finish and Klaar’
Every year the South African Music Awards, commonly known as the SAMAs, becomes more of a joke. The whole blinged-up, banged-up event has mutated into a giant industry pat-on-the-back, skewed to favour the entitled. So, this weekend as the SAMAs come around for the nineteenth year, The Con will not be paying attention. Here’s why. The […]