Date for the SAMAs announced

The South African Music Awards (Samas) have confirmed that the award ceremony will take place on Saturday, 18 November.

This after there was confusion as to whether or not the awards would take place.

They released a statement reassuring people that the awards would go as planned. However, they did not reveal the venue.

They also announced the last round of nominees for the Record of the Year and Music Video of the Year categories.

The late AKA and K.O are now tied with seven nominations each.

AKA just added Record of The Year for his single Lemons (Lemonade) featuring Nasty C. He’s also nominated for Male Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Engineered Album, Best Collaboration (for the single Lemons (Lemonade) featuring Nasty C), Best Collaboration (for the single Company featuring Kiddominant), and Best Produced Music Video (for Lemons (Lemonade) featuring Nasty C.

K.O, on the other hand, is nominated for both Record of the Year and Music Video of the Year for his song, Sete featuring Blxckie and Young Stunna. He’s also nominated for Male Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Collaboration, Best Produced Music Video and Remix of the Year for Sete featuring Young Stunna, Oxlade and Diamond Platnumz.

Other nominees for Record of The Year include Sofa Silahlane by Wanitwa Mos, Master KG and Lowsheen featuring Nkosazana Daughter; Dali Nguwe by Wanitwa Mos and Master KG feat Nkosazana Daughter, Basetsana and Obeey Amor, Soft Life by Nomfundo Moh, Hamba Wena by Deep London and Boohle and Stimela by 2Point1 featuring Ntate Stunna and Nthabi Sings and others.

Some of the songs nominated for Music Video of The Year award are Paris by Q-Mark and TpZee featuring Afrikan Papi, Big Flexa by Costa Titch feat C’buda M, Alfa Kat, Banaba Des, Sdida & Man T, Hamba Wena by Deep London and Boohle; uMlando by 9umba, TOSS and Mdoovar feat Sir Trill, Sino Msolo, Lady Du, Young Stunna and Slade and many others.

RiSA CEO Nhlanhla Sibisi congratulated the nominees.

“Congratulations to the nominees of Record of the Year and Music Video of the Year awards. We urge the public to make their voice heard by voting for their favourites in those categories. It is a competitive line up and may the best win,” he said.

SAMA organiser sets the record straight – we will do better next time

The organisers of the South African Music Awards (SAMA 28) have reacted to the poor turnout of this year, 2022’s event. The awards took place on the 27th and 28th of August, Saturday, and Sunday night, but the complaints from notable celebrities like Makhadzi, Zakes Bantwini, and Lady Du flooded the socials.

It is believed by a huge number of people that corruption has penetrated the awards, hence the shock at some of the winners announced, including Artists of the Year.

According to Sunday World, SAMA’s organiser Nhlanhla Sibisi embraced the blame, saying they will do better next year. We gave total power to the public to nominate the artist of the year. This was the biggest mistake and we regret it,” said Sibisi.

“We also allowed the public to vote for the artist of the year, this weakened our internal controls because the public vote took over and controlled the voting process. We also failed to engage with the artists, as a result, most of them did not know how the judging process worked.

“We are therefore pleading with the public not to blame the artists because they followed all the terms and conditions and won. We are to blame, we are at fault and we will do better next time.”

Nhlanhla Sibisi further revealed that the lack of enough money also contributed to the poor organisation of the event and venue as they initially planned to use Sun Arena but changed to Sun City.

SAMA’s Artist of the Year winner Haksul Muzi speaks out

Haksul Muziq reacts after South Africans questioned the validity of his win as the Artist of the Year at SAMA28. On Sunday night, the musician was awarded by the South African Music Awards but people were not pleased as many claimed they didn’t know him. Hakzul was nominated alongside A-Reece, AfroToniQ, Emtee, Makhadzi, Musa Keys, Rodger KB, and others. Daily Sun, who interviewed the winner, said he campaigned, urging people to vote for him.

“We have a lot of events in Katlehong and I made sure to go to most of the events and ask for votes. I even campaigned at events held by political parties. I made pamphlets and handed them out, encouraging people to vote for someone that’s local trying to make it big.

“I’m also an Uber driver and I asked every client that got into my car to vote for me and play my music,” he said.

Haksul Muziq i can't be the only who has never heard of him,nor saw any of his music anywhere Makhadzi was robbed again by SAMAs She deserved ARTIST OF THE YEAR Award how can #SAMA28 cheat her again like #SAMA27 disgusting #BoycottSAMAs#BoycottSAMAs
Nandi pic.twitter.com/QUTUUc1NX0

— IG:Joy-Zelda (@joy_zelda) August 28, 2022

I’d rather have me few supporters who will vote. than millions that won’t even be bothered ? https://t.co/pmCjtH5uPK

— HaksulmuziQ (@HaksulmuziQ) August 28, 2022