Bheki Khoza’s Sound Of Surprise
When it comes to music, South Africa often likes to keep its greatest talent unheralded. Bheki Khoza, the guitarist, composer, arranger...
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- Apr 24, 2016
- 4 min
Thandiswa Mazwai’s wisdom
The music that Thandiswa Mazwai is making right now, invoking the spirits of Miriam Makeba & Busi Mhlongo & Abbey Lincoln is some of the...
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- Jun 16, 2015
- 4 min
Africa’s Songbird
In Jazz there are those singers who are unafraid to do something truly different. They will sing against the grain, or play in a new way...
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- May 19, 2015
- 4 min
Pitika Ntuli
Pitika Ntuli is a man whose mission seems to be to defy convention and straddle as many categories as possible. He is a sculptor, art...
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- Feb 19, 2015
- 5 min
Madonna cannot tell me what to do
In the year Design Indaba celebrates 21 years, perhaps it is time to reflect on how Ravi Naidoo has turned the platform into the most...
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- Feb 7, 2015
- 4 min
Language is a meeting place, a point of confrontation, between the individual and the social. André
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” Milan Kundera as quoted by André Brink in Writing In A...
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- Jul 16, 2014
- 10 min
A Cat Called Bongani Madondo
He should have been a Sophiatown heavy. With his two-tone brogues, tweed jackets, and occasional bowtie, he looks like something straight...
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- Jul 15, 2014
- 6 min
Whose literature is it anyway?
It was inevitable that the defiance, dissent, resistance and protest against Apartheid should be reflected in South Africa’s literary...
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- Jul 14, 2014
- 4 min
Nadine Gordimer’s shining literary voice
It tells us something about Nadine Gordimer that Raks Morakabe Seakhoa, the untiring champion of South African letters, used to call her...