Welcome to the 9th edition of The Greedy Weekend! What is the Greedy Weekend you might ask? Well, it's a new column where we discuss and review some of the weekend events, that we would've attended. It really should've been a podcast but you know web hosting is way cheaper than microphones. So here we are with our round-up of the weekend ending Sunday, 14 September 2025.
Silhouette Sessions
A while ago (probably at the same time they decided that we liked sitting on hay at festivals) event organisers came together and decided that we desired curated events at restaurants. There's also the possibility that South Africa decided this for us and we just followed suit. However it came to be, it seems to be a recipe that's working well for everyone.
We're getting event concepts that were once a rarity or even nonexistent, event organisers are getting affordable spaces to bring these concepts to life, and restaurants get to charge those ridiculous prices for alcohol to hundreds of patrons. As I said everyone is getting something out of it.
This growing ecosystem recently added a new event to the family tree: Silhouette Sessions. Taking house music off the menu, it promised an uninterrupted dose of Afrobeats, R&B, hip hop, and dancehall. Silhouette Sessions aimed to reignite the dance floor, and although technical difficulties brought about interludes of silence, that's just what it did.
Making it's debut under the theme "A Denim Affair," it was a showcase of self expression in both fashion and dance. Mara Mara Restaurant in Harare's Belgravia suburb played host, and there was enough cotton packed into it that we could resuscitate COTTCO (we could probably resuscitate ZISCO too because panga pakazara simbi). The weather was perfect, the atmosphere expectant, however they had worked it out, the organisers had gotten it right (well everything except that sound system).
While many events of a similar genre have faced allegations (usually from fans of 3-step and amapiano) of replicating the same dreary playlist of old school tunes, Silhouette Sessions was refreshingly different. The DJs had the license to play "All I Do Is Win" but didn't, they could've simply skipped from one popular track to another but they had a care for rhythm, and ultimately this had transitions receiving vocal applause louder than the moments when a song climaxed.
DJ Naida deftly went from Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" into K.O's "Cara Cara," and then "Gasolina," while the star of the night, Shaku Chanté, drifted from DJ Khaled's "I Got The Keys" into AKA & Anatii's "Don't Forget To Pray" and then from Kanye West's "Clique" into Kwetsa's "Ngud."
If the speakers hadn't been suffering from amapiano withdrawal, these would've been the most perfect of moments. However the crowd in attendance wasn't deterred from swaying into motion, and just when they seemed tired, a new song brought them back to life.
Silhouette Sessions had made a promise, and even with the few technical difficulties, they had delivered. For a debut, they had won me over, and I was already looking forward to the next one.
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