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“Intriguant, attirant, et irritant a la fois” (intriguing, attractive, and irritating at the same time). That’s what one French Twitter user had to say about South Africa’s latest internet sensation, ...
At Oppikoppi 2009 – the insane music festival in the veld, which last year was branded “Smoorverlief” – the craziest night by far was the last one, when Afrikaans zef-rap outfit Die Antwoord hijacked ...
When Die Antwoord checked their emails on 2 February this year, among the 5,000 or so messages the group had received overnight was one from Neill Blomkamp, the District 9 director and a fellow South ...
Justin Bieber is everywhere. The 16-year-old Canadian pop star and Twitter junkie has so thoroughly achieved global media saturation that he’s the unlikely first topic of conversation when the Georgia ...
Gold teeth, punk haircuts, prison tattoos, heaps of bling and foul mouths have secured a trio from Parow international stardom - literally overnight. The Afrikaans zef-rap trio Die Antwoord unleashed ...
Cape Town - The ongoing feud between SA rap artists Die Antwoord and artist Sean Metelerkamp has taken another twist. Culture webzine We-Are-Awesome has published what it claims is a response to a ...