New initiative Littlegig is well-intentioned and puts on a good show, but remains a commodity that functions only to confirm middle-class privilege.
New York-based MC Pharoahe Monch performed a single underground set in Cape Town, showing off the lyrical dexterity that has won him cult status.
Carlo Mombelli, Sannie Fox, The Brother Moves On and Madala Kunene outshine the foreign acts in a two-day smorgasbord of music in Cape Town.
The animating impulse in her work is a dedication to those who suffer – but don’t make – history, write Bongani Kona and Dudumalingani Mqombothi.
The singer has been Âinvolved with music since her early teens and says she was born to write.
After mourning the death of the revolution, the ?collective has found new purpose, and a new myth.