What makes for a potentially electrifying performance? Helen Herimbi hits up AKA’s Orchestra on the Square rehearsal to find out The Jozi sky is grey when I arrive. AKA’s band is standing in a circle on the street and I join them. The seem on edge. Nhlanhla, who takes care...

After hearing his new album Helen Herimbi quizzes AKA about love, liquor and lyrics A day after AKA returns home from Cannes, France, he’s hooked up to an IV at Reviv wellness centre in Johannesburg. He’s there for some rejuvenation after travelling and before he releases his third solo album,...

AKA is silently sitting on the edge of a white couch. He is unfazed by the din of his band and other hangers-on. Next to AKA, Anatii takes Boomerang after Boomerang of himself on his cellphone in his shiny Michael Jackson-inspired outfit. But AKA doesn’t notice. He stares past the...