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South African Award Winning Reggae singer Nathi Bantu resurfaces with a new single titled ‘Sanitizer’. A prelude to his full-length album, the track (and two videos) is released on the new Running Order label and distributed through Content Connect Africa.

Written at the height of the 1st COVID19 wave in 2020, the dancehall-influenced production was recorded as a livestreamed performance at Soda Studio in downtown Johannesburg. “With this song, I sensitise and conscientize. It’s a fun tune about awakening and awareness. We say don’t just sanitise hands but mind and soul too”, the 2012 SATMA award winner posted ahead of his release.

The track also highlights how the poverty stricken semirural community Nathi resides in lacks basic services and has no access to the proverbial sanitizer to protect themselves from the virus. The two videos which premiere simultaneously on VivaNation TV are Nathi’s audio-visual interpretation of the content and energy carried by his new music.

In this song, Nathi puts a spotlight on the devastation caused by the pandemic. He also makes a gloomy prognosis about the future of the pandemic due to developed nations’ reluctance to waiver intellectual property rights for development of vaccines in Africa.

The single is part of Nathi Bantu’s 10 track album coming out in October 2021 and is out on all popular digital stores to stream or download.

Catch Nathi Bantu on #IQL (Iqonga Labatsha) with Slyso on Umhlobo Wenene Fm, on Saturday, 25, September, at 7:10pm. You can tune into the station on DStv: 818 or www.umhlobowenenefm.co.za (listen live). 

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Restaurants and creatives have been equally hit by Covid 19 and most have been forced to permanently close their doors. This is while the pandemic has been dealing irreversible damage to most creatives in the arts space. Seemingly this is what led to the relationship between Slyso and this establishment with a menu as diverse as its patrons. Marshall, a manager at La Trattoria says, “I met Slyso when he became a regular the restaurant and a chance conversation about the state of the two industries led to this partnership, between our establishment and him”.

Slyso who has held various residencies including News Café and various other food and entertainment venues in Port Elizabeth, over the years is in charge of Thursdays (Ladies Edition) and Sundays (The Gentlemen’s Edition) at La Trattoria. Slyso says, “It’s about creating a vibe for the matured patrons and give them both a soulful restaurant music and club experience while enjoying their meal or catching up with friends at the restaurant’s bar”.

The restaurant which serves from mean starters, sushi, seafood, burgers, traditional mains such as lamb shank, ribs to steaks delivers daily to the surrounding estates and Mooikloof area and has free wi-fi.

Join Slyso every Thursday for the Ladies Edition as well as Sunday (Gentlemen’s Edition) while DJs, Tim & Jikufurito host your Heritage Day celebrations on Friday, 24^th September and every Friday & Saturday.

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Germany, has a relationship that stretches over decades with South Africa. This includes amongst others, the illustrious vehicle manufacturing sector which boasts Mercedes Benz, Audi and BMW components and cars. This relationship sees a continued contribution by Germany to the South African GDP while creating employment for thousands of South Africans to date.

This relationship has recently stretched over to the creative arts and sees Germany launching and calling on South African creatives to take part in a competition to celebrate the German Day of Unity 2021 with cash prizes and a chance for musicians to work with the legendary House Music producer and DJ, Ralf Gum to produce a song that celebrates the relationship between these two countries.

The German Embassy is calling on fashion designers, musicians and cartoonist to create pieces in their respective fields that celebrate the relationship between Germany and South Africa.

To access more information including guidelines and how to enter, please visit the website of the German Embassy below, and listen to Slyso’s radio show, Iqonga Labatsha (#IQL) on the 3^rd largest radio station in South Africa, Umhlobo Wenene FM on Heritage Day, 24^th September, 2021 at 20h05. Slyso will be speaking to the German Embassy to unpack this lifetime opportunity for South African creatives who have been hardest hit by Covid- 19.

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Isuzu South Africa has been the wind beneath “Slyso’s Blanket Drive 2020”. Our campaign, fittingly takes place not only during August (Women’s Month) but during the Covid 19 pandemic, whose challenges have seen a rise in GBV (Gender Based Violence) cases. These have stripped women and children off their right, homes and dignity in the process.

Gifting a blanket has significance with new beginnings, like when a child is born, when one leaves home to go to school or find employment and even starting a home.

We kicked off the blanket drive in Rustenburg on Friday, 14, August with Roots 2000 in tow. Roots 2000 is a duo made up of two Eastern Cape born and Johannesburg based artists, MXO & Sliq Angel. They have just released a single fitting of our campaign, called “Aye Afrika” in celebration of their 20 years as a duo. The aim was to, (in addition to embarking on the drive with celebrity “Friends Of Slyso”) but to have an interview onboard our Sponsored Isuzu X- Rider A/T about their journey. This interview as well as the heart-warming journey to our blanket drop off, will be made available on this website when we launch Slyso’s YouTube Podcast

We were hosted by Curvy Queens SA, who led us in a convoy of cars, to an old age home in Ramochana, Sunrise Park in Rustenburg, where they had prepared cake and cold drink to make a jol out of the beautiful occasion.

We ended up staying way longer than anticipated but eventually, Slyso and team had to head back to Johannesburg for him to host his radio show, on Umhlobo Wenene FM. This turned out to be a piece of cake for our elegant Isuzu X-Ride Double Cap, Automatic, which did all the work as soon as we shifted the gear to “drive”. It is not a Ferrari by any means, but it does a decent job of giving you power when you need it and surprising stability on curvy tarmac for a high ride bakkie. Oh, by the way this particular model forms part of the company’s 5 Automatic Transmission bakkie- range offers, since the D-Max 3.0 Litre in 2018.

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