Imvula Music Program

07/08/2026

Vocal coach Popie Nomungeka assists keys students by lending her voice to complete learning through a song. The song is title “Unomnganga”. It is an old choral song that was made famous by the late legendary Stompie Mavi

28/07/2026

Our Philippi village keys class caters for different levels of students.
Here one of our students showcases what he has grasped.

We love the confidence learning musical gives him!

20/07/2026

20/07/2026

Today is the last day of June holiday program before schools reopen tomorrow. Our students and teachers have been playing a few songs for weeks , jamming and having a great time whilst the room is filled to capacity!

It is safe to say we had lovely holidays!

Here they are having one of their jam sessions and experimenting with Bob Marley’s “No Woman No cry”

15/07/2026

Breaking racial divisions through music!

For the first time in our program we are hosting a holiday program for children in a community that is predominantly known as a “colored” community”. This term simply says, only colored people( a formal term in South Africa) reside in this community. Cape Town remains is racially and economically divided because of the apartheid unjust laws that were passed to force segregation across South Africa.

One of the acts that were introduced to ensure this discrimination is the
Group Areas Act & Forced Removals: The notorious 1950 law mandated geographical separation by race. Coloured communities were largely relocated to designated areas on the Cape Flats (e.g., Mitchells Plain, Hanover Park), while Black Africans were restricted to planned townships like Gugulethu, Khayelitsha or relegated to informal settlements (black communities).

Imvula music program has collaborated with Angel Community Outreach to bring free music education to the children of Valhalla Park, a community notoriously labeled by gangsterism, poverty and substance abuse. This holiday program offered a safe space for the children of the community to access free music lessons and to express themselves in a safe space!

11/05/2026

This week, we’re taking you inside the townships outside of Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦✨

Through the Playing For Change Foundation’s Imvula Music Program, music and the arts become instruments for hope, healing, and opportunity for local youth facing poverty, violence, drug abuse, and the lasting impacts of apartheid and racism.

But Imvula is about more than music 🎶
It’s about mentorship, community, safe spaces, nourishment, and giving young people the chance to dream bigger.❤️

“Music is my therapy. It heals wounds that medicine can’t touch.”

-Polar, Imvula music student

A huge thank you to the Nina Simone Charitable Trust for helping make this impactful work possible. ❤️🎶

19/03/2026

Guitar lesson at Philippi Village

18/03/2026

Free guitar lessons!

Imvula Music Program offers free music lessons at

Here is a sneak of our Guitar instructor, Eric assisted by our Keys instructor: Mziwakhe, guiding our advanced guitar students during a session on Friday 13 March 2026

13/03/2026

Touching saxophone for the first time!