-May 22, 20184 minBheki Khoza’s Sound Of SurpriseWhen it comes to music, South Africa often likes to keep its greatest talent unheralded. Bheki Khoza, the guitarist, composer, arranger...
-Apr 24, 20164 minThandiswa Mazwai’s wisdomThe music that Thandiswa Mazwai is making right now, invoking the spirits of Miriam Makeba & Busi Mhlongo & Abbey Lincoln is some of the...
-Jun 16, 20154 minAfrica’s SongbirdIn 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...
-May 19, 20154 minPitika NtuliPitika Ntuli is a man whose mission seems to be to defy convention and straddle as many categories as possible. He is a sculptor, art...
-Feb 19, 20155 minMadonna cannot tell me what to doIn the year Design Indaba celebrates 21 years, perhaps it is time to reflect on how Ravi Naidoo has turned the platform into the most...
-Feb 7, 20154 minLanguage 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...
-Jan 30, 20137 minLet The Bass MournIt 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...
-Dec 11, 20124 minJazz 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...
-Sep 29, 20125 minSome thoughts on why I started The Victor Dlamini Literary PodcastBy 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...