We have to 'unlearn' how we think about these contributions of these great masters and try and link them more to our cultures, to develop a stronger Jazz culture in South Africa. As the album reaches ...

The 60s are regarded as a ‘silent decade’ in mainstream South African history. Indeed, after the Sharpeville Massacre, the apartheid regime cracked down on resistance, banning political parties ...

THIS article aims at two things: To explain the Ndebele culture of looking after cattle and to demonstrate the use of Ndebele language in connection with the rearing of cattle. It is language at work.

Javett-UP's Bongi Dhlomo collection features pieces by some of the most influential artists working in South Africa between 1960 and 1990. Since it was stablished between 2017 to 2019, the Bongi ...

Initially it wasn't actually any concern about my own jazz credentials that hooked my interest in Winston Mankunku Ngozi. It was simply my friend's choice of that one signifier. Mankunku. Like Monk, ...

In 1968, on tenor saxophone, his premier horn, Winston Ngozi recorded the landmark album Yakhal' Inkomo (World Record Co.), leading a quartet completed by pianist Lionel Pillay, bassist Agrippa ...

The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) is opening the Yakhal' Inkomo exhibition, the first curatorial iteration from the Bongi Dhlomo collection. The Javett Art Centre will ...