ICON PB (Pty) Ltd

ICON PB (Pty) Ltd, trading as Icon PB, is an independent South African music and multimedia company based in Durban. It runs a record label alongside a television and film soundtrack business, and lists radio production, events, studio and set production, podcasting and digital marketing among its other services. Its soundtrack work is contracted through the production houses Stein Glass and Tshedza Productions, with credits on the SABC dramas Uzalo, Shaka iLembe, Isibaya, The Wife and Amalanga Awafani.

The company is owned by its founder, the producer Phila Koshin (Philakwezwe Dlamini), who came out of Durban radio as a presenter and producer before concentrating on the business. No parent company or major-label shareholding has been identified. Icon PB has signed the artists Sands, Beast and Amanda Mo, the earliest from 2015, and Koshin also releases under his own name, including Love Back in 2024 and Vuka in 2025. In 2026 the company opened a soundtrack collaboration with producers in Eswatini that Koshin described as a creative partnership rather than a signing deal.

Its claim to recorded-music rights has been tested in court. In November 2026 the Eswatini High Court dismissed with costs an application by ICON PB to be declared owner of the master recordings of Sands’ debut album Sands of Time, Judge Cyril Maphanga finding that the company had not established a lawful claim to copyright in the recordings and had not shown a written transfer. The judgment did not decide who the outstanding royalties are payable to. A separate 2019 claim by the company against the distributor Content Connect Africa in the Johannesburg High Court concerned royalties on the same album; its outcome is not established here.