Music
Jimmy Dludlu: the Mozambican-born guitarist who became a South African jazz favourite
Jimmy Dludlu, born in Mozambique, became one of South Africa's best-loved jazz guitarists in the late 1990s. His…
South African jazz
Music
Dorothy Masuka: the Zimbabwean-born singer whose songs were banned by apartheid
Dorothy Masuka, born in Bulawayo in 1935, became a star in 1950s Johannesburg with songs in Zulu, Ndebele…
Music
Jonas Gwangwa: the trombonist who scored Cry Freedom and led the ANC’s cultural army
Jonas Gwangwa was a founding member of the Jazz Epistles in the 1950s, led the ANC's Amandla cultural…
Arts + Culture
Exiled from Soweto, she became the voice of Roots: Letta Mbulu
South African singer Letta Mbulu toured with the musical King Kong as a teenager and left for the…
Arts + Culture
“Mannenberg” was recorded in a Cape Town studio in 1974. It became the unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid struggle
Abdullah Ibrahim, the Cape Town pianist formerly known as Dollar Brand, recorded "Mannenberg" in 1974 with saxophonist Basil…
Arts + Culture
An exiled South African trumpeter had America’s number one song in 1968. The story of “Grazing in the Grass”
In July 1968, Hugh Masekela's instrumental "Grazing in the Grass" went to number one on the Billboard Hot…