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Tambor Projects (Pty) Ltd

South African company that held the phonogram credit on Jnr SA's own catalogue from August 2023 to November 2025, under exclusive license to Universal Music South Africa.

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Tambor Projects (Pty) Ltd is a South African company that held the recorded-music phonogram credit on South African vocalist and producer Jnr SA’s own catalogue from August 2023 through November 2025. Every release in that catalogue checked on Apple Music during that period carries the credit “Tambor Projects (Pty) Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music (Pty) Ltd,” covering the D2MA EP (4 August 2023), Indlela (19 July 2024), the Uthembekile single (18 April 2025) and the Uthembekile album (21 November 2025).

No source found by this desk names Tambor Projects’ shareholders or states who controls the company, so it is not established whether it is owned by Jnr SA himself, by a third party, or held jointly with the distributor. South Africa’s CIPC registry has no public search API available to this desk, which rules out confirming incorporation details directly.

The credit does not appear on Jnr SA’s most recent release, Dance To My Afro (24 July 2026), which instead carries a Sony Music Entertainment Africa licence from a different imprint, Tech Hub Music (Pty) Ltd. Tambor Projects’ status after August 2025 is not established.

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