Podcasts about umuzi

Today's guest on Line Noise is Muzi, a DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer from Empangeni in South Africa, whose new album uMUZI is out now on A Trak's Fool's Gold Records. We talked about getting Chris Martin to sing in Zulu, Daft Punk and connecting generations. Photo by Andile Buka.

Today's guest on Line Noise is Muzi, a DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer from Empangeni in South Africa, whose new album uMUZI is out now on A Trak's Fool's Gold Records. We talked about getting Chris Martin to sing in Zulu, Daft Punk and connecting generations. Photo by Andile Buka.

Muziwakhe McVictor Mazibuko, também conhecido como o “Zulu Skywalker”, é um dos artistas mais proeminentes da atual cena musical sul-africana. O afrofuturista de 32 anos faz parte da geração pós-apartheid que está revolucionando a cultura do país, e criou seu próprio estilo, a “Zulu House”. Misturando sonoridades como o “bubblegum”, o maskandi, o kwaito, além da isicathamiya, Muzi vem traçando uma carreira brilhante e fazendo parcerias de peso. Artistas como Stormzy, Kaytranada, Damon Albarn e Chris Martin colaboram com o músico sul-africano que encanta e soma fãs por onde passa.O “Zulu Skywalker” lançou em outubro seu quinto álbum, “uMuzi”, que já acumula dezenas de milhares de escutas nas plataformas musicais. Entre as faixas do novo disco está “Light”, composta pelo artista em homenagem à sua mãe e que conquistou também a Programação Musical da RFI.Siga o Balada Musical no Spotify ou no Deezer. Confira também as playlists mensais da Programação Musical RFI no YouTube, Deezer e Spotify!

Multidisciplinary Artist, Muzi has this week dropped two singles from his upcoming album uMuzi that features Coldplay's Chris Martin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sean O'Toole asks Bronwyn Law-Viljoen and Idra Novey about their novels Notes on Falling and Take What You Need. They discuss the emotional repertoires of their characters, the political context of their work, art-making as well as writing about mothers and daughters. Sean O'Toole is a writer, editor and curator based in Cape Town. His two books are Irma Stern: African in Europe - European in Africa (2021), and The Marquis of Mooikloof and Other Stories (2006). He is the editor of three volumes of cultural essays, most recently The Journey: New Positions on African Photography (2020). Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and the former Head of Creative Writing at Wits University. She has doctorates from New York University and the University of the Witwatersrand. Her first novel, The Printmaker, (Umuzi, 2016) won the 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize. Her second novel, Notes on Falling was published by Umuzi/Penguin-Random House in 2022. Idra Novey's most recent novel is Take What You Need (Viking, 2023). She is the author of Those Who Knew (2019) and Ways to Disappear (2016). Her poetry collections include Exit, Civilian, The Next Country and Clarice: The Visitor. Her works as a translator include Clarice Lispector's novel The Passion According to G.H. and a co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian, Lean Against This Late Hour. She teaches fiction at Princeton University. In this episode we are in solidarity with Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. We call for his freedom. You can read more about his case here: https://www.pen-international.org/news/pen-international-and-pen-america-condemn-cruel-and-inhumane-prison-sentences-imposed-without-legal-merit-on-cuban-artist-activists-luis-manuel-otero-alcntara-and-maykel-osorbo-castillo-prez and his art here: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/story/luis-manuel-otero-alcantara.  As tributes to him, Idra reads from Aimé Césaire's “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land” (translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman), Bronwyn reads two poems by Francisco Márquez, and Sean reads from “The Artist as Hostage: Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara” by Coco Fusco. This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to promote open conversation and highlight shared histories.

Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Compiler Podcast from Red Hat. Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Special guest, Erin Mullaney: @erinrachel@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: Use TOML for .env files? Brett Cannon .env files are used to store default settings that can be overridden by environmental variables. Possibly brought on by twelve-factor app design. Supported by python-dotenv, which is also used by pydantic, pipenv, and others. One issue is that it's not a defined standard. from python-dotenv docs “The format is not formally specified and still improves over time. That being said, .env files should mostly look like Bash files.” Adafruit decided that an upcoming CircuitPython will use TOML as the format for settings.toml files, which are to be used mostly how .env files are being used. Brett notices this may fix things for Python for VS Code, and other people as well. So… Is this a good idea? I think so. Michael #2: Pydantic gets serious funding via Mark Little (was on episode 285) Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 million in seed funding. Pydantic's new commercial entity will incorporate a swath of new tools and services that are both “powered-by and inspired-by the Pydantic library” Pydantic will start with an initial team of six, with the first three engineers based in Montana, Chicago and Berlin. “With $4.7 million in the bank, Colvin said that they're continuing to rewrite parts of Pydantic in Rust, with a view toward making it more efficient via a ten-fold performance improvement.” Erin #3: JSON Fields for performance (Denormalization) David Stokes Using JSON fields when you design your databases is a good way to improve database query performance. Brian #4: f-strings with pandas and Jupyter keyboard shortcuts Kevin Markham After a couple year break from blogging, friend of the show Kevin Markham has a couple great, short, useful posts. How to use Python's f-strings with pandas My favorite bit is the part about using f-strings for dictionary keys Fly through Jupyter with keyboard shortcuts

We kick off this episode with Henry Francis Fynn, the trader who'd made his home in Port Natal and was part of a group of Englishmen who'd fought with Shaka against Sikhunyane of the Ndwande. By 1826 Fynn had been living basically as a Zulu at Mpendwini, near the Mbokodwe stream which is close to Isipingo south of Durban. Last week I explained how Shaka had donated three herds of cattle to Fynn so he could set up his important Umuzi. One of the herds was payment for helping defeat the Ndwandwe. Fynn by now was given a Zulu name, Mbuyazi – which means long-tailed finch, a bird, of the bay. One of his praise songs was all about the Finch, a fiscal shrike, which is particularly vicious in how it hunts – by impaling insects on thorns. Fynn was Shaka's favourite mercenary, a killer, and one of the few that Shaka allowed to kill people without his direct permission. Later Fynn's descendents would become known as iziNkumbi, the locusts. By 1826 Fynn had four, possibly five, Zulu wives. We don't know their names because these were never passed down in the usual Zulu oral tradition, not even his great wife. But we know quite about about his children. A son called Mpahlwa was born while Fynn was off fighting the NDwandwe, so he was conceived around December 1825. That was a few months after Fynn's umuzi had been setup. He adopted the Zulu custom of living, and would send for one of his wives every night, who would come to his hut at nightfall. Only poor men would creep around at dusk to visit their wives. Fynn had thrown off all pretenses of living like a European – unlike some of the other traders such as Maclean the youngster, or Farewell. So by 1826, Shaka was watching these traders with their guns and ships carefully. In the same year, the Zulu king decided to move his entire main umuzi closer to Port Natal – building his new residency on the site of an Umuzi long abandoned by the Cele chieftan Dibhandlela. We'll come back to what happened there next episode, right now lets swing to the north west deeper– because our old friend – who was actually still quite young by the name of, Mzilikazi of the Khumalo had been a very very busy young man. The remnants of Sikhuyane's Ndwandwe, shattered by Shaka, joined up with him in the area around the upper reaches of the Vaal River by the end of 1826. The erosion of power of the Buhurutshe people was taking place, the Mzilikazi was also incorporating refugees from the Tswana and Sotho chiefdoms as the area to the south and West of the Vaal became more unstable. The Pedi had also been defeated earlier by Zwide's Ndwandwe and now Mzilikazi was busy taking advantage of their defeat to raid their old stomping ground. The Khumalo people had become an agglomeration of their original clan from Zululand and the Tswana called them the Matabele – Nguni speakers called them the amaNdebele. amaNdebele means the Marauders. They were indeed, amaNdebele.

We kick off this episode with Henry Francis Fynn, the trader who'd made his home in Port Natal and was part of a group of Englishmen who'd fought with Shaka against Sikhunyane of the Ndwande. By 1826 Fynn had been living basically as a Zulu at Mpendwini, near the Mbokodwe stream which is close to Isipingo south of Durban. Last week I explained how Shaka had donated three herds of cattle to Fynn so he could set up his important Umuzi. One of the herds was payment for helping defeat the Ndwandwe. Fynn by now was given a Zulu name, Mbuyazi – which means long-tailed finch, a bird, of the bay. One of his praise songs was all about the Finch, a fiscal shrike, which is particularly vicious in how it hunts – by impaling insects on thorns. Fynn was Shaka's favourite mercenary, a killer, and one of the few that Shaka allowed to kill people without his direct permission. Later Fynn's descendents would become known as iziNkumbi, the locusts. By 1826 Fynn had four, possibly five, Zulu wives. We don't know their names because these were never passed down in the usual Zulu oral tradition, not even his great wife. But we know quite about about his children. A son called Mpahlwa was born while Fynn was off fighting the NDwandwe, so he was conceived around December 1825. That was a few months after Fynn's umuzi had been setup. He adopted the Zulu custom of living, and would send for one of his wives every night, who would come to his hut at nightfall. Only poor men would creep around at dusk to visit their wives. Fynn had thrown off all pretenses of living like a European – unlike some of the other traders such as Maclean the youngster, or Farewell. So by 1826, Shaka was watching these traders with their guns and ships carefully. In the same year, the Zulu king decided to move his entire main umuzi closer to Port Natal – building his new residency on the site of an Umuzi long abandoned by the Cele chieftan Dibhandlela. We'll come back to what happened there next episode, right now lets swing to the north west deeper– because our old friend – who was actually still quite young by the name of, Mzilikazi of the Khumalo had been a very very busy young man. The remnants of Sikhuyane's Ndwandwe, shattered by Shaka, joined up with him in the area around the upper reaches of the Vaal River by the end of 1826. The erosion of power of the Buhurutshe people was taking place, the Mzilikazi was also incorporating refugees from the Tswana and Sotho chiefdoms as the area to the south and West of the Vaal became more unstable. The Pedi had also been defeated earlier by Zwide's Ndwandwe and now Mzilikazi was busy taking advantage of their defeat to raid their old stomping ground. The Khumalo people had become an agglomeration of their original clan from Zululand and the Tswana called them the Matabele – Nguni speakers called them the amaNdebele. amaNdebele means the Marauders. They were indeed, amaNdebele.

We kick off this episode with Henry Francis Fynn, the trader who'd made his home in Port Natal and was part of a group of Englishmen who'd fought with Shaka against Sikhunyane of the Ndwande. By 1826 Fynn had been living basically as a Zulu at Mpendwini, near the Mbokodwe stream which is close to Isipingo south of Durban. Last week I explained how Shaka had donated three herds of cattle to Fynn so he could set up his important Umuzi. One of the herds was payment for helping defeat the Ndwandwe. Fynn by now was given a Zulu name, Mbuyazi – which means long-tailed finch, a bird, of the bay. One of his praise songs was all about the Finch, a fiscal shrike, which is particularly vicious in how it hunts – by impaling insects on thorns. Fynn was Shaka's favourite mercenary, a killer, and one of the few that Shaka allowed to kill people without his direct permission. Later Fynn's descendents would become known as iziNkumbi, the locusts. By 1826 Fynn had four, possibly five, Zulu wives. We don't know their names because these were never passed down in the usual Zulu oral tradition, not even his great wife. But we know quite about about his children. A son called Mpahlwa was born while Fynn was off fighting the NDwandwe, so he was conceived around December 1825. That was a few months after Fynn's umuzi had been setup. He adopted the Zulu custom of living, and would send for one of his wives every night, who would come to his hut at nightfall. Only poor men would creep around at dusk to visit their wives. Fynn had thrown off all pretenses of living like a European – unlike some of the other traders such as Maclean the youngster, or Farewell. So by 1826, Shaka was watching these traders with their guns and ships carefully. In the same year, the Zulu king decided to move his entire main umuzi closer to Port Natal – building his new residency on the site of an Umuzi long abandoned by the Cele chieftan Dibhandlela. We'll come back to what happened there next episode, right now lets swing to the north west deeper– because our old friend – who was actually still quite young by the name of, Mzilikazi of the Khumalo had been a very very busy young man. The remnants of Sikhuyane's Ndwandwe, shattered by Shaka, joined up with him in the area around the upper reaches of the Vaal River by the end of 1826. The erosion of power of the Buhurutshe people was taking place, the Mzilikazi was also incorporating refugees from the Tswana and Sotho chiefdoms as the area to the south and West of the Vaal became more unstable. The Pedi had also been defeated earlier by Zwide's Ndwandwe and now Mzilikazi was busy taking advantage of their defeat to raid their old stomping ground. The Khumalo people had become an agglomeration of their original clan from Zululand and the Tswana called them the Matabele – Nguni speakers called them the amaNdebele. amaNdebele means the Marauders. They were indeed, amaNdebele.

We kick off this episode with Henry Francis Fynn, the trader who'd made his home in Port Natal and was part of a group of Englishmen who'd fought with Shaka against Sikhunyane of the Ndwande. By 1826 Fynn had been living basically as a Zulu at Mpendwini, near the Mbokodwe stream which is close to Isipingo south of Durban. Last week I explained how Shaka had donated three herds of cattle to Fynn so he could set up his important Umuzi. One of the herds was payment for helping defeat the Ndwandwe. Fynn by now was given a Zulu name, Mbuyazi – which means long-tailed finch, a bird, of the bay. One of his praise songs was all about the Finch, a fiscal shrike, which is particularly vicious in how it hunts – by impaling insects on thorns. Fynn was Shaka's favourite mercenary, a killer, and one of the few that Shaka allowed to kill people without his direct permission. Later Fynn's descendents would become known as iziNkumbi, the locusts. By 1826 Fynn had four, possibly five, Zulu wives. We don't know their names because these were never passed down in the usual Zulu oral tradition, not even his great wife. But we know quite about about his children. A son called Mpahlwa was born while Fynn was off fighting the NDwandwe, so he was conceived around December 1825. That was a few months after Fynn's umuzi had been setup. He adopted the Zulu custom of living, and would send for one of his wives every night, who would come to his hut at nightfall. Only poor men would creep around at dusk to visit their wives. Fynn had thrown off all pretenses of living like a European – unlike some of the other traders such as Maclean the youngster, or Farewell. So by 1826, Shaka was watching these traders with their guns and ships carefully. In the same year, the Zulu king decided to move his entire main umuzi closer to Port Natal – building his new residency on the site of an Umuzi long abandoned by the Cele chieftan Dibhandlela. We'll come back to what happened there next episode, right now lets swing to the north west deeper– because our old friend – who was actually still quite young by the name of, Mzilikazi of the Khumalo had been a very very busy young man. The remnants of Sikhuyane's Ndwandwe, shattered by Shaka, joined up with him in the area around the upper reaches of the Vaal River by the end of 1826. The erosion of power of the Buhurutshe people was taking place, the Mzilikazi was also incorporating refugees from the Tswana and Sotho chiefdoms as the area to the south and West of the Vaal became more unstable. The Pedi had also been defeated earlier by Zwide's Ndwandwe and now Mzilikazi was busy taking advantage of their defeat to raid their old stomping ground. The Khumalo people had become an agglomeration of their original clan from Zululand and the Tswana called them the Matabele – Nguni speakers called them the amaNdebele. amaNdebele means the Marauders. They were indeed, amaNdebele.

Andrew Levy, co-founder of Umuzi and African Coding Network, challenges conventional wisdom on the importance of a university education in this sensational episode.In a previous episode Warren Ingram discussed ways to save for a further education for your children whether that means a university education or something else. Traditionally university was the first choice for many people because a degree was meant to unlock a great career and start you on a path to high earnings. This is all changing as artificial intelligence adjusts the nature of jobs and companies are looking for very specific skills. Andrew strongly advocates for the development of so-called “soft skills” such as passion, grit, determination. His important advice for parents is to allow your child to explore their own interests, and encourage their curiosity. Pay attention to what excites them. There are advantages to getting a university education, such as networking opportunities, and being exposed to people from different backgrounds and ways of thinking. Some career paths also require a degree, such as an accountant or doctor. Academia is an important component of society but isn't the only choice facing newly graduated high school students.Umuzi offers an alternative to higher education: a 12-month, paid training programme, that's demand-driven, project based, Agile, and human-centred. Today, over 83% of Umuzi graduates are currently employed in high value jobs. We also briefly touch on the role online courses, and remote learning, play in further education. Resources mentioned by Andrew in the show:https://www.umuzi.org/https://www.globallearninglandscape.org/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1KmNKYC1l0stjctkGswl6g https://www.africancoding.network/Disclaimer: Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited is a Licensed Financial Service Provider. This material is not intended as and does not constitute financial advice  or any other advice and is neither exhaustive nor prescriptive. It does not take into account your personal financial circumstances. Your financial adviser will assess your financial situation and needs and assist you to draw up a plan to help you achieve your financial goals. The views expressed by the contributor are his or her own (as an independently registered financial services provider, financial adviser or other independent capacity), and not necessarily endorsed by Old Mutual (as a separate financial services provider).Join us on twitter for real conversations about family finances:@FamFinanceShow@DianaGranouxWebsite: www.familyfinanceshow.comSubscribe on your favourite podcast platform:https://podlink.to/FamilyFinanceShow 

Focus on the Family Africa — Ngenzenjani mayelana nokulwa okuqhubeka njalo phakathi kwamadodakazi ami? Umuzi wethu usuyinkundla yamaboxer uqobo.Umawami uthi kumele ngingenelele,kodwa umnyeni wami uthi kuyinto eyejwayelekile ezinganeni ezisesigabeni salezi.Ngakube kumele kungihluphe emoyeni lokhu?

Uri Bram is the bestselling author of Thinking Statistically and the CTO of Umuzi, an educational organisation that supports talented young people to develop the skills needed to access high-value careers. For those of you who are long time listeners, you may remember Uri first appeared on the podcast back on episode 62 where we spoke about key statistical principals, music theory and learning skills from experts. Uri like me is someone who is interested in a number of different areas and he’s been up to a lot since we last spoke, joining Umuzi in South Africa as their CTO. Umuzi teach a range of digital skills, including coding, copywriting and design, using real life projects to make the experience as practical as possible. In this conversation we discuss a range of topics including: How the courses are selected and delivered at Umuzi and how they compare to other alternative education programs Whether there is a tradeoff between training skills and teaching people to think How to choose projects when you have a lot of interests and trouble focusing So whether you’re interested in alternative education or have too many interests and want to find a way to pick your projects better, this episode will leave you with a range of useful insights.

CliffCentral.com — In this episode we focus on reimagining education. How might we as a country reimagine education to get more high potential young people the education they need in order to succeed? We speak to MD of Umuzi, Gilbert Pooley, to find out more about how and why he is reimagining education in South Africa. Stay tuned for more as Frankly Speaking investigates what we could do to change the major economic challenges facing SA.

In this month's Africa: Stories in the 55, we speak to the authors of two historical novels, both set in the 20th century. Fred Khumalo's "Dancing the Death Drill" deals with the South African ship the S.S. Mendi, which was sunk in the waters off of the UK, killing 618 black South African soliders. In "Harvest of Skulls", Abdourahman Waberi, a Djiboutian writer, goes to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide and writes his novel based on the stories of the people he meets. Spanning nearly 60 years, and many different names, South African author Fred Khumalo tells the poignant story of Pitso, a young black South African soldier who encounters other South Africans of different cultures on the ship the S.S. Mendi. "Dancing the Death Drill", published by Umuzi, shows intra-community politics--and the cameraderie-- of the men on the doomed ship. Previously forgotten by history books, Khumalo's book ensures that South Africa's tragedy will not be forgotten.  Hard questions are raised in Abdourahman Waberi's book, "Harvest of Skulls". Waberi, a Djiboutian writer, spent time in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide to try to understand what had happened and connect with people there. The book, published by Indiana University Press, is out for the first time in English.