Awards
I was recently inducted into the South African Hip Hop Museums Hall Of Fame. I also received an Honorary Award & Ubuntu Activism Award from the South African Hip Hop Awards. Our first major award was in 1988 when we made the Regional finals of the Shell Road To Fame. Other awards were The Mayor’s Award for Black Noise song about Greening The City. In 1993 Black Noise song A Day After reached Number 1 on Metro FM. I also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from Iconic Urban Dance Awards for my solo contributions to Hip Hop Dance & Culture, as well as Black Noise winning a Lifetime Achievement Award. I also won the Regional & National LeadSA Award, ETV South African Heroes Award, Mandela Monday Award, Arts & Culture Award for contributions to Literature, Blunt Magazine Award for Activist Of the Year, Words, Beats & Life Awarded Heal the Hood Project with Best Hip Hop Organization 2009, while I was nominated for Pioneer Of The Year 2013. I was honoured as the face of Moshito Music Conference where I was awarded for my contributions to Hip Hop Culture in South Africa and internationally. In 2022 I won the Distinguished Public Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the Living Legend Award from the Global dance Supreme Organization.
South African Heroes Award
Mandela Monday Award
National LeadSA Award
Regional
Ubuntu Activism Award
Sportsmans Achievements
I won my Western Province Board Baseball Squad colours, as well as my Western Province Board Soccer Colours 1982. We were winners of the first ever Under 15 Soccer tournament held at Cape District in 1983. As street roller-hockey players no older than 15 years old, we drew 1-1 with the all white Western Province Men’s Roller-Hockey team at the M.S.A. Roller-skating competition at Good Hope Centre on the 5th March 1983. The next year I set the new roller-rink high jump record for Under 16 at “Fun City”. In 1986 I won my South African Tertiary Institution Sports
Associations (S.A.T.I.S.A.) colours for Javelin and in 1987 I won first for Javelin in the Western Province Training Colleges Sports Union. In 1988 we were the winners of the SATISA soccer tournament held in Port Elizabeth. In 1998 I brought ABADA Capoeira to Cape Town.