South Africa: Southern African Music Rights Board Members Earn R125,000 Per Meeting

[Scrolla] Chairperson Nicholas Maweni earns R125,000 per meeting, deputy Sisa Mayekiso R100,000, and board members R87,000, with meetings held four times a year. Trompies member Eugene Mthethwa said he recently earned R14.29 in royalties for music played on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and Netflix.

South Africa: David Jenkins, Aka Qadasi, Champions the Roots of Zulu Maskandi

[Afropop] Afropop fans are likely familiar with the life and music of the late Johnny Clegg, the South African-born English boy who snuck out into the Zulu townships during apartheid and befriended Zulu musicians, eventually learning their language, guitar style and dances, and then founded two of the most significant bands in South African music history, Juluka and Savuka. At the heart of Clegg's sound is the Zulu traditional guitar, concertina and vocal genre called maskandi, (sometimes maskanda). It's a