From receiving a standing ovation from the music industry as he picked up the Song Of The Year SAMA in 2007; to running things at his Afro pop, house and kwaito hit making label TS Records; or formally ruling the Breakfast show airwaves every morning on Ukhozi FM and now in May 2008 he is back with the popular youth radio station in Gauteng YFM presenting the breakfast show in which has to date taken part in Social responsibilities initiatives such as the raand then working on other aspects of his multi media business, Grassroots yet Glamorous, DJ Sbu is a perfect example of the results of hard work, ambition, determination and staying true to your township roots.
This is the way he’s always been and he’s got even
more business and multimedia plans in the works.

Whilst presenting the breakfast show at Ukhozi FM
he took on the will be helping the needy school-going
children with his Corporate Social Investments (CSI)
with Dress-A-Child Campaign. After being touched by
seeing school kids going to school without uniform or
school shoes It does not only focus on primary school
kids from Soweto, but it is now national.

He says: "For me it is important to see kids dressed
properly so that they become equal in class and
school. A school uniform also helps a child not
to be exposed that he or she does not have
enough clothing."

DJ Sbu, an epitome of popular culture, is described by
some people as a philanthropist and a person who
has a heart to give. Sbusiso Leope was born on the
28th of May 1979 and grew up as the only son of a
Policeman father and housewife in a four roomed house
full of cousins in the Gauteng township of Tembisa. After matriculating from boarding school in Pretoria at the tender age of 14 he did a year of entry level engineering at TUT before heading back to Johannesburg to enroll at Wits Tech. The bright lights and club paved streets of Jozi, saw him losing focus and failing first year, “I wanted to go to parties and bashes and experience kwaito and see Mdu, Arthur and TKZee, and I just loved music.” He dropped out and because he was too scared to tell his parents he’d failed, ran away from home and went to live in a bachelor flat in Hillbrow.

But the problem was money. So he got a job as a door to door sales man, “I wanted to go back to tech, so I saved as much as possible, my parents couldn’t afford to pay for tech.” After being spotted by an aunt whilst selling in town, DJ S'bu had to go and tell his parents what he’d been up to for the past three months.

By 97’ DJ S’bu had saved enough to register himself at Wits Tech. While supporting himself selling cell phones, it was on campus that the foundation for his future career in music and media was laid. He played at parties, created his own gigs and was a DJ on Channel T radio at Wits Tech and also Tembisa Info Radio.

The good times didn’t impact on his studies this time round. By the end of 97 he’d received a bursary from Eskom and by 2000 was working there. “I was still playing at gigs and I just kept on making demos and taking them to people at radio stations.” He particularly wanted to be on YFM, “It was a voice for us Jozi youth. I felt ‘That’s where I belong.’”

S'bu’s chance came when YFM ran a competition called Tropika Voice Of The Future, he won 10 000 and the graveyard show at the weekend with two other DJs. He was ecstatic, “It was like ‘Geez I work at Y!’ I had my foot in the door.” So it was no surprise when he resigned from Eskom and joined the talent agency Gaynor and started to get bit parts on TV shows and adverts.