LISTEN | ‘Young people are teaching me to dance to amapiano’ — Ramaphosa

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has thanked the youth for excelling in making the amapiano music genre a global sensation.

He was delivering the ANC’s January 8 statement at the Mbombela Stadium in Mpumalanga at the weekend. 

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Ramaphosa said he is learning how to dance to amapiano. 

He vowed to teach ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe .

“From the rise of kwaito music in the early 1990s, I could never dance to kwaito today. Young people are excelling in amapiano and they are trying to teach me to dance to amapiano,” Ramaphosa said.

The amapiano genre has become a global success and topped music charts, with artists such as DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small playing a huge role in its popularity.

Last year multi Grammy award-winner Rihanna named Mnike by Tyler ICU and Tumelo_za her favourite song of the year. 

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