Biko’s children
In their debut EP, the Johannesburg-based experimental jazz group iPhupho L’ka Biko offer a message of hope, resilience and solidarity while drawing from South Africa’s black jazz heritage.
postapartheid South Africa
Another hero falls
Eric “Bucs” Damons existed beyond the frame of the narrow scope of the elite South African sporting narrative.
Is Chester Missing blackface?
He performs to packed-out theatres and is a regular correspondent on a satirical television news show,
Kyle Shepherd X
The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.
Inbox
It has come to this. Don’t focus too much on the ‘your scholarship’ line. An email
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town's Cape Flats.
Postapartheid Ideology
The video for “Go Getter,” by Johannesburg’s MB featuring Malika, which I saw playing once or
The Radio Kalahari Orkes
The curious appeal of a band of celebrity Afrikaner musicians engaging with a quite easily defined past and present.