Amampondo has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 14 episodes and was first played on 23 September 2015.

"Amampondo is a South African percussion ensemble which was started by Dizu Plaatjies in Langa Cape Town in 1978. The other founding members were, Simpiwe Matole, Michael Ludonga, Mzwandile Qotoyi, Leo Mbizela and Mandla Lande.

Amampondo has entertained audiences with their broad spectrum of African traditional and contemporary compositions . They have taught and played the world over, from Israel to Japan, from Scandinavia to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.[citation needed]

The group continue to perform but without their former leader, Dizu Plaatjies who has started his own project entitled , Ibuyambo."