South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
More than 100 000 Kaya 959 listeners tuned in to watch the annual Soul Inspired Concert this month. Produced by Kaya 959 and supported by Spar, this popular concert staged in December showcased SA’s biggest Gospel and soul stars, cementing its status as an annual highlight for Gauteng music fans. […]
Africa’s most-celebrated Gospel star has been honoured with another prestigious award. But her early years were marked by suffering and rejection and her life is a testimony of how God turned her life around, writes Neziswa Kanju President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on Thursday, November […]
Lindelani Mkhize is widely known in the African continent as one of the founders of the Gospel giant Joyous Celebration. He is credited with unearthing and shaping the talent of many of our Gospel musicians. It is for this contribution among other roles he plays in the music industry that […]
In the Q&A interview below Gateway News finds out more about the life, faith and dreams of KwaZulu-Natal Gospel musician Esihle Siwela and about his new single Ingeyakho Please can you tell us more about your spiritual background and relationship with God — where does it all stem from? Singing […]
Acclaimed South African Gospel singer M’abatho Mashaba has released a new single titled Mobagona through which she assures the nation of God’s love and presence in this difficult time. In writing the song, she says she aimed to bring comfort to those who are at close to losing hope, due to […]
Kingdmusic, born Denga Takalani, is a South African multi-award winning Gospel/Christian singer, songwriter, radio presenter, actor and worship leader. The vibrant musician hailing from Mukula village in Venda started singing at his then-home church at the age of 12. By the age of 14 he had started writing his own […]
Music review by Luchae Williams Bethel Music duo, Paul and Hannah McClure released their debut studio album, The Way Home in August 2019. The album marks the couple’s first studio project under the Bethel Music banner. Recorded at the Layman Drug Company Studios in Nashville, the husband and wife team sought […]
Fast-rising South Africa Gospel-singer, HLE, has released a live video of her chart-topping single Dwala which is the lead single from her highly-anticipated debut album Your Kingdom on Earth. “It’s been a long time coming!!” says the former Joyous Celebration lead singer whose video went live last Friday. “I’m so excited for people […]
Multiple award-winning Jamaican gospel singer Chevelle Franklyn, is set to release Go In Your Strength, the debut worship single from her full-length album South Wind Vol 1, globally on April 3. Recorded in South Africa, the 13-track album features the voices of South African Gospel singer Ntokozo Mbambo. Franklyn co-produced […]
Straight off her collaboration with Benjamin Dube, singer, songwriter and former Joyous Celebration lead singer HLE, also known to many as Hlengiwe Ntombela, released her debut solo single Dwala last Friday — and it went straight to number one on the iTunes charts. The iTunes success was achieved amid some major […]
