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Prof Lodge’s considerable legacy has come from his insightful, close inspection of this country’s turbulent history — most especially black politics.

Oliver Mtukudzi: Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe (African Expressive Cultures) by Kyker, Jennifer W. at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0253022312 - ISBN 13:  9780253022318 - Indiana University Press - 2016 - Softcover

Listening to Jali’s Xhosa Requiem, it is easy to say both Brahms and Verdi have worked their way into his musical thinking as he shaped his own work.

The rivalry is spilling into SA as Lesotho heads to general elections in October

Gabriel Mabi Segwagwa reportedly suffered a stroke and passed on on 3 June 2021.  Known as the man who became The Drum, Segwagwa died aged 74.  A friend and collaborator, David Coplan recalls the artists magnificence.  Winter chokes the highveld in Johannesburg, South Africa, and takes from me, from our entire culture, a mighty mountain. Gabriel Mabi Segwagwa Thobejane, the diminutive tower of rhythmic power, has left us: a man who did not so much play the drums, but became The Drum. He repo...

Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Manic Managerialism and Academentia is being launched. Contemporary Campus Life’s analysis of managerialism as a cause of academentia is framed by exigencies imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. My argument is that the virus has brought about an ecological correction that affects all human and animal kinds, one that management (as distinct from management theory) can learn from. My satirical critique of market-driven neoliberalism as applied to instituti...

Black Coffee: S. Africas rags-to-riches DJ rocks on despite Covid AFP 3 hrs ago AFP © Luca Sola DJ Black Coffee is one of a generation of black South Africans who rode the wave of democracy from 1994 and made it out of poverty The coronavirus pandemic has silenced many artists, but South Africas house music pioneer, Nkosinathi Maphumulo, popularly known as DJ Black Coffee, has been rocking it -- dropping an album and creating a streaming platform. The legendary DJ released...

The coronavirus pandemic has silenced many artists, but South Africas house music pioneer, Nkosinathi Maphumulo, popularly known as DJ Black Coffee, has been rocking it -- dropping an album and creating a streaming platform. The legendary DJ released his sixth album, the first in five years, a few weeks before his 45th birthday. As the pandemic hit the pause button on live music performances and pushed many in the gig industry to the brink, the township-born musician-turned-house star was navig...