Johnny Clegg

South Africa’s fragile freedoms are recorded in classrooms, songs and satire. These books archive courage, dissent and institutional memory

When two artists stopped planning and started listening, they found music, and meaning, in the natural disorder of life

Hostels are finding ways to transmute blighted history into safe places for cultural expression to take root, Oupa Nkosi discovers

Books by or about local musicians, the music business and the music scene

Very little is known of the late guitarist, who was a keeper of a stark and foreboding maskandi sound

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

This piece was first published in October 2000 to mark the 21st anniversary of ‘Universal Men’, the celebrated debut album by Juluka.

​In death, the artist begins the process of becoming a collective ancestor for South Africans and others around the world

Many just go out there and braai but others spend the day obsessing about identity, what is cultural, whose culture and whether it’s appropriation.

Musician Johnny Clegg has expressed sadness and shock after Bongani Masuku – one of his backing vocalists – was killed in Troyeville, Johannesburg.

South Africa’s literary classic <i>Jock of the Bushveld</i> has been turned into the country’s first 3D animation film featuring global celebrities.

The Palaeontological Scientific Trust launched ‘Scatterlings of Africa’, which aims to use fossils to promote common aancestry and heritage tourism.

In a rehearsal studio one afternoon in 1986, a white South African musician wrote an international hit — partly in isiZulu.

A new television series looks at the impact of land on art, writes <em>Matthew Krouse</em>.

Slowing new HIV infections is the key to combating the Aids pandemic, Nelson Mandela told the tens of thousands gathered for his 46664 benefit concert to mark World Aids Day on…