Andries Bezuidenhout

New music video, about life and death (literally, alas) in a small South African university town. This one is in Afrikaans, but the video is also available in English on my YouTube channel. youtu.be/sp8taSDYLQA?...

New music video from my newly released solo album. About how fickle escapist dreams can be - this one is in Afrikaans, but the song is also available on the English edition of the album ("Greetings to Alice"). youtu.be/fOdnZ8w5E84?...

Background info on my new album launched today. An album inpired by arson attacks, but that also moved on from there. The album's title is "Greetings to Alice/ Om Alice te groet". youtu.be/dEUTWCAUWhI?...

My new album is out, with Afrikaans and English editions. This album comes from the heart and the gut rather than the head. The English one is the same group of songs passing through language for a second time. Afrikaans: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/... English: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

New music video from my new album "Greetings to Alice", released on 9 October. On person's hog is another's calf - a song about history and belonging. Also available in Afrikaans. youtu.be/NXaDX1sZ7XI?...

The band's Apple Music page got a bit of a refresh. There's a new version of an old music video too. music.apple.com/za/artist/br...

Best of Brix. YouTube playlist with Brixton Moord & Roof Orkes tunes, some with music videos. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Nuwe enetjie in Afrikaans. 'n Liefdeslied as eerbiedige antwoord op Breyten Breytenbach se gedig oor die rooiborsduif. youtu.be/rwkBsMtrZD4?...

Live optrede in Nxuba (Cradock) - deel van Etienne van Heerden se veldsoiree. Opgeneem en geredigeer deur LitNet. Die eerste drie songs kom van my nuwe album af, wat van 9 Oktober beskikbaar gaan wees. youtu.be/DvKOS59nsms?...

A song from my album "Greetings to Alice", to be released on 9 Oct. A conversation with the poet Breyten Breytenbach from the desert landscape of the Tankwa Karoo. youtu.be/d1EMcbcLXpg?...

New music video. An Afrikaans poem by Antjie Krog I put to music. From an upcoming album titled "Om Alice te groet". The album will also be available in English as "Greetings to Alice" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNGv...

Update on council resignations at the University of Fort Hare. www.ednews.africa/p/ufh-govern...

A credible resource to track what is going on with the governance crisis at the University of Fort Hare. Useful timeliness and access to documents. fort-hare-watch.apps.raak.work

Indepth review of "Bazaar punk" on the SA Rock Encyclopedia. Blow by blow account of each of the tracks, with links where to listen. sarockmusic.com/2026/08/17/b...

Interesting survey results. Rural households more interested in title deeds in areas where traditional leaders play along with mining companies to remove people from their land. www.news24.com/business/opi...

EyeKhala, or inyanga yeKhala, is the isiXhosa name for July. The month when the aloes bloom. This video celebrates winter in the southern hemisphere, with footage from the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. youtu.be/_4oZo3HLeGM?...

Newish music video for an oldish song. In Afrikaans, videography and editing by Hanné Koster. I've added the bits with campfires. There's an English version available called "My Promise". youtu.be/s473IHCCCPg?...

Playlist with songs about Johannesburg - mostly Afrikaans. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Music video for a new version of an old Afrikaans standard - the title track from Koos du Plessis' first album "Skadu's teen die muur". The video is a combination of timelapse videography and footage from old films. The images of the house from a farm near Barrydale. youtu.be/bJ9lhza_xUs?...

Afrikaans spoken word playlist on YouTube. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The band has a new video out. youtu.be/QE43-jg8xOs?...

Interview by AJ Opperman on my new album "Op soek na Koos Doep". Paywall - for subscribers of Netwerk24. www.netwerk24.com/kunste/koos-...

New music video for an old song by the band. About history and complicity and skeletons in closets. An Afrikaans song. youtu.be/mZZoMJehzaY?...

Quirky and funny and quite lovely. "Mamma mia" becomes "Mama wami". I also like the mbaqanga style guitar work as conversation with the original. Zulu steam punk moments, or something like that. youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...

New music video from my album "Op soek na Koos Doep", the title track from Koos du Plessis' third album, released in 1982. I've amped it up from folk to folk rock with a bit with percussion. Footage from the farm Matjiesfontein near Nieuwoudville. youtu.be/pAiKfFX8HKA?...

The band's rock 'n roll tunes. Want vandag was kak. open.spotify.com/playlist/2VP...

The band has a new video out. youtu.be/p45eSgi3ors?...

A new album: Covers of songs by the legendary Afrikaans singer-songwriter Koos du Plessis. Mostly his own compositions, but also lyrics put to music by his daughter Karla and me. Koos du Plessis died in 1984 and would have been 80 years old this year. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

New solo music video. Cover of the Koos du Plessis song "Jantjie van die Berge". youtu.be/XFLoK6lwYrc?...

LESOTHO: Mass lay-offs at Lesotho garment factories as US tariffs bite groundup.org.za/article/mass...

The band has a new video, an edit of "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) alongside a South African story told in Afrikaans. youtu.be/5u7fLwnbr1I?...

Updated playlist with my songs, some solo, some with the band. Mostly Afrikaans, but a few English ones as well. open.spotify.com/playlist/4DF...

Today, I am proud to be a South African. Sometimes, we are the most obnoxious people in the room, but when it matters, we get together, despite our differences, and make our argument, calmly, deliberately, and with conviction.

Interview on Afrikaans radio on Afrikaner "refugees" in the US. omny.fm/shows/op-en-...

20th anniversary of the release of this song, now with a video. About the future and the impossibility of dealing with one's past. Scenes from movies from the first half of the previous century. "Fortuinverteller" [Fortune teller], by the Brixton Moord en Roof Orkes. youtu.be/VJYFYir7-3o

Afrikaner "refugees from genocide" in the US? Here I am, an Afrikaner, at the graduation ceremony of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa's oldest Black university. On stage is an Afrikaner dean. The crowd is singing an Afrikaans song in celebration of their degrees. Genocide? I think not.

The band has a new video for an old song (from 2022) made from a very, very old movie (from 1925). We have a bit of an old movie obsession right now. The lyrics are in Afrikaans, comical take on a confident guy who gets his ass kicked by a dom. youtu.be/DrV2EvCq9jg?...

Our latest podcast is a Workers Day Special. I loved doing this story with a trade union veteran about the crucial and massive 1986 May Day stay away in South Africa. We also had lots of laughs, including at the expense of a self-important mall security boss. #tradeunion #WorkersDay #labor

New recording and music video, Afrikaans song with words by Koos du Plessis and melody by my sister-in-law Karla du Plessis. The album, a tribute to the late Koos du Plessis, will be released on 31 July 2025. The video contains old movie footage from the 1940s and before. youtu.be/HARoTpFqD8w?...

Recording of a memorial for Michael Burawoy at the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as the launch of a new edition of Eddie Webster's classic book "Cast in a racial mould" (1985) for which Michael wrote a new preface, sent to the publisher the day before he died. youtube.com/live/s_RGck2...

Thank you Wits University Press for re-publishing this classic. New foreword Michael Burawoy.

Spot on Max, and on Stigtingsdag nogal. As a white Afrikaner, I can claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity | Max du Preez www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you paint the abyss...

"But, as witnessed with the aid cuts, arguing about the human impact or fairness will not fly in the current set-up, in the face of 'disruptive populism and post-fact, post-truth society', Dr Kituyi argues." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lesotho, classified as a "least developed country", exported garments to the US under the US's Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA). The industry sustained around 30k jobs - important for such a small country. Slapping a 50% import duty on them is either ignorant or cruel, or both.

Still love this song: ‘I’d been singing the wrong word for 30 years’: Deacon Blue on how they made Dignity www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Ralph Rabie, aka Johannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and anti-apartheid activist, was born on 27 March 1960. He died 42 years later. I'm thinking of him today - this song is a tribute to him and the generation of Voelvry. youtu.be/ts0FoiLu_uI?...

Autumn mornings in eDikeni, Amathole Mountains in the background.

MEMORIAL for Michael #Burawoy and the RELAUNCH of 'Cast in a Racial Mould' by Eddie #Webster April 1st Tuesday, 16:00-19:00: Hybrid Event #Sociology @WitsWiSER @Wits_SCIS @WitsUniversity @iNIHSS