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South African rapper, producer and musical artist, Sam Turpin

Sam Turpin’s notes on grief

The legacy of photographer Gisèle Wulfsohn echoes through her son’s music as Sam Turpin confronts sorrow through art

Afro soul star: Berita will be holding a special Workers’ Day performance at The Market Theatre.

Berita’s ‘Echoes of The Soul’: A meditation on migrant workers

Berita’s Workers’ Day performance becomes a powerful meditation on migration, memory and xenophobia in a nation built through labour, movement and forgotten solidarities

Spirit leader: Zawadi Yamungu.

Zawadi Yamungu: The African Dramaturg

Blending jazz, folk and indigenous instrumentation, Zawadi crafts a sound that reconnects audiences to heritage while confronting the politics of the present

Albert Mazibuko, a member of the legendary group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, passed away on Sunday 5 April aged 77. Photo: Facebook.

Albert Mazibuko and the echoes of isicathamiya

As South Africa mourns Albert Mazibuko, his life reveals the deep intersections between music, memory, displacement, and the resilience of black cultural expression.

A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance

‘Isitha Sabantu’: The new frontier for anti-colonial theatre

A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance

Livhuwani Ramalivhana (Soul Br_th_r) (left) along with Septober Energy co-founder Naledi Chai (Mantra Zeph) (middle) and Sphiwe Radebe (Rilla) (right). Photo: Supplied

Sounding Joburg: In lieu of an editorial note

And so in an attempt to settle the ethical discomfort I have with this position, I have decided to publicly curate an edition of writing filled with musicians, writers,…

Introspection: Zoë Modiga, Frantz
Fanon and Nina Simone share a
consciousness searching for self
within the postcolonial malaise.
Photos: Abdul Lesedi Tyrone
Goulanka/Supplied

The Intensity of beginning

In this unorthodox piece, a lover of Beyoncé, Busi Mhlongo, Brandy and Miriam Makeba, reads the artistic contributions of Nina Simone and Zoë Modiga through the lens of Frantz…

Bring him back: Zoë Modiga intends to pay homage to Hugh Masekela’s generosity of spirit when she performs at the HughFest on 1 December. Photo: Tatenda Chidora

Zoë Modiga and the politics of love

The singer-songwriter speaks about love, her three albums and how her fledgling career was boosted by jazz legend Hugh Masekela

Transporting voice: Thandiswa Mazwai performs at the 25th Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival, which was held in Sandton, Joburg, in September. Photo: Oupa Bopape/Getty Images

Thandiswa Mazwai’s technologies of resistance

Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world

At the top of his voice: Musician and vocalist Siyabonga Mthembu is the leader of the band The Brother Moves On.  (Tseliso Monaheng)

Siyabonga Mthembu: Musical prayers said by hymn-self

The self-described ‘performance artist who happens to sing’ speaks to us about his work

School of hard knocks: Jazz drummer Gontse Makhene has a debut album in the pipeline. Photo: Solomon Moremong

A phoenix from the ashes

Jazz percussionist Gontse Makhene is rebuilding his life after a devastating blaze at his home

Returning the gaze: Lebogang Tlhako’s image forms part of the Reflections: On Black Girlhood exhibition

Reflections On Black Girlhood and the politics of representation

Black girls straddle inequality and shame, as well as joy and self-authorship, in a new exhibition, Reflections: On Black Girlhood