Some of the best young Afrikaans musicians are headed to Carnival City this spring. Get ready to shuffle those feet, sway those hips and enjoy a good old “sokkie” as Jonk in Afrikaans takes guests on ...

Carnival City will once again host the highly popular New Year’s Eve Super Sokkie in the Big Top Arena on December 31. This is the fifth year that the hit after hit dance party will take place on New ...

Last July a good friend had to DJ at a party after an academic conference at which SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande was the keynote speaker. Even though Nzimande came to thank him for his cool ...

Yet another award ceremony, yet another corporate weekend away. So, what shall be my mask this time? The history of power in corporate SA still looms large in the boardrooms of present-day South ...

We know that Afrikaans rapper Jack Parow can sing in Zulu, but we never figured that Afrikaans sokkie-singer Dozi might be willing to do the same. Dozi told Rapport that he has decided to give up on ...

A video of two couples performing the sokkie-sokkie in the rain on a Drakensberg road in KwaZulu-Natal while waiting for two stalled trucks to be moved has gone viral. The video was posted on January ...

Like it or not, the treffers vein of Afrikaans music is its most popular, its most important and crucially, its most lucrative. Even younger, urban dwelling listeners are now more forgiving of the ...