Review: ‘Vukazithathe`, a portrait of the maskandi artist as a mentor and friend
(WorldNews Music)

When Nthato Mokgata was awarded the 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music last year, the two of us met up for an interview at a quiet Johannesburg restaurant and I asked him what he considered to be some of the key moments of his career. Engaging in the creative and collaborative scene of Cape Town in the early 2000s ranked highly, as did the release of his debut album as Spoek Mathambo, Mshini Wam. “Oh, and doing Future Sounds, man, that was key,” he said. “Meeting Bheki? That was one of the most important moments for me.” Back in 2012, when Mokgata began touring the country and gathering footage for what would become his 2015 documentary on the myriad sounds of South African...