“My hartjie my liefie, die son sak weg…” Valiant Swart sings out to the tune of the accordion. He might be singing traditional Afrikaans music but he is still the same blues-loving rock star he’s ...

Nico Carstens, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 90, was a legendary accordion player and composer of boeremusiek. What he played sounded like boeremusiek to the uneducated, although the purists ...

The video opens in sepia tones, seven hollow-eyed people around a dinner table, forks clinking on plates and a wolf howl in the background. It would be a cliché if it weren’t for the bright yellow ...

Johannesburg - Afrikaans musician and Boeremusiek legend, Nico van Rensburg, died on Sunday morning at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria, his wife said. Lydia van Rensburg said her husband, 76, died of ...