Racial Segregation

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Juluka’s debut record became a landmark album with an acute awareness and translation of its sociopolitical milieu and that of the nuances of the cultures it drew from.(Fin Costello/ Getty Images)

While tied to South Africa’s fortunes, Johnny Clegg’s music had a universal appeal

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

Arts Desk

A place of ones own: The construction site for phase three of District Sixs redevelopment. About 60?000 people were forcibly removed from 1968 onwards and most buildings were razed. (David Harrison)

District Six to get its name back

After becoming the ‘whites-only’ neighbourhood of Zonnebloem, another symbol of those forcefully removed from there is being reclaimed

Lester Kiewit

When the Space Theatre opened its doors in 1971 in Cape Town, within the Separate Amenities Act timeframe, it evaded the law by having multiracial audiences. Photo: Spacetheatre.com

COMMUNITY THEATRE

A call for township theatres

Practitioners say there is a need to reignite the fire that kept community theatre burning

Zaza Hlalethwa