Isicathamiya

As South Africa mourns Albert Mazibuko, his life reveals the deep intersections between music, memory, displacement, and the resilience of black cultural expression.

The spirit of the original group formed in the 1960s is still present today

The country was a very strange world, but artists, audiences and record companies found ways to get their sound out there

The founder of the group’s openness to collaboration took Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s isicathamiya music around the globe

Developing a taste for Zulu music forms like isicathamiya, Clegg would freqeuent townships and hostels at an early age, flouting apartheid laws

Sjava’s music mirrors the stance of patriarchs who play in the “not all men” territory but present contradictory messages in their work.