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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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Apr 24, 20164 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Jun 16, 20154 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Feb 19, 20155 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Feb 7, 20154 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Jul 16, 201410 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Jul 14, 20144 min read
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