Culture

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Let The Bass Mourn

It is always a joy to hear an old and familiar instrument given new wings. This is how I felt when I first heard Victor Ntoni play the...

Jazz Is The Highest Art Form, says Abdullah Ibrahim

“Jazz is the highest art form and the Symphony Orchestra is stuck in the industrial era, with each musician only knowing how to play his...

Some thoughts on why I started The Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast

By Victor Dlamini It is the age we live in that gives one that rush of blood to the head – and you suddenly feel as if you were a David...

Authors that you should add to your must read list

It used to be that authors only lived through their books & as a reader you could only rely on your imagination to imagine how they...

Mangethe, golden voice of football is gone

“Lisenethini” he used to say when a goal was scored. But it was what came before that made Phillip Babayi Zwane one of a kind in...