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Londiwe Ntshele
May 22, 20184 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Apr 24, 20164 min read
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
Jun 16, 20154 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
May 19, 20154 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Feb 19, 20155 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 7, 20154 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
Jan 30, 20137 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Dec 11, 20124 min read
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...
Londiwe Ntshele
Sep 29, 20125 min read
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...
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