South Africa’s fragile freedoms are recorded in classrooms, songs and satire. These books archive courage, dissent and institutional memory
When two artists stopped planning and started listening, they found music, and meaning, in the natural disorder of life
Hostels are finding ways to transmute blighted history into safe places for cultural expression to take root, Oupa Nkosi discovers
Books by or about local musicians, the music business and the music scene
Very little is known of the late guitarist, who was a keeper of a stark and foreboding maskandi sound
The country was a very strange world, but artists, audiences and record companies found ways to get their sound out there
This piece was first published in October 2000 to mark the 21st anniversary of ‘Universal Men’, the celebrated debut album by Juluka.
In death, the artist begins the process of becoming a collective ancestor for South Africans and others around the world
Many just go out there and braai but others spend the day obsessing about identity, what is cultural, whose culture and whether it’s appropriation.
Musician Johnny Clegg has expressed sadness and shock after Bongani Masuku – one of his backing vocalists – was killed in Troyeville, Johannesburg.
South Africa’s literary classic <i>Jock of the Bushveld</i> has been turned into the country’s first 3D animation film featuring global celebrities.
In a rehearsal studio one afternoon in 1986, a white South African musician wrote an international hit — partly in isiZulu.
A new television series looks at the impact of land on art, writes <em>Matthew Krouse</em>.
Slowing new HIV infections is the key to combating the Aids pandemic, Nelson Mandela told the tens of thousands gathered for his 46664 benefit concert to mark World Aids Day on…
Former president Nelson Mandela was at the Ellis Park stadium on Monday to greet the South African artists who had agreed to perform in his fifth 46664 concert aimed at fighting…
Former president Nelson Mandela was at the Ellis Park stadium on Monday to greet the South African artists who had agreed to perform in his fifth 46664 concert aimed at fighting…
Some of South Africa’s most famous artists, including singer Johnny Clegg, have accused the country’s public broadcaster of demanding bribes if they want to be heard on air.…
