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Jonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture Gwen Ansell Jonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture Music is not a zero sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s struggle for a national culture, it must be trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who w...

The revered trombonist, composer and cultural activist never wished to be 'the state composer' but remained political until the end, in service of the people.

Music is not a zero sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s struggle for a national culture, it must be trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, Johannesburg, and died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg aged 83. Through 65 years on stage, Gwangwa’s playing contributed to every genre of South African jazz. Overseas, he was hailed as player, producer and composer. Yet he chose to step away from mainstream success for ten years, leading the Am...

Walking painers. the spurs outshoot my golden state warriors. the spurs to the western conference fwinls the win. david beckham is walking away, off the pitch for good. he hangs up the headband after this season. the retiring 38-year-old has won 19 trophies, 10 of them league titles. the only english player to win championships in four countries. he says now is the time to go. >> it's a difficult decision because i still feel that i can play at the top level. and still have done for the last six months. but, i always you know secretly said to myself, i want to go out at the top. chapter th...

Bang and tell us why the universe was formed the way it was. i don't understand it but michio kaku is author of the "physics of the impossible". this is supposedly a photograph of some of the oldest, what, light flying around the universe? >> this picture is a billion dollars photograph, taking 16 years of hard work, showing a picture of the baby of the universe, the infant universe when it was only 400,000 years old. this is incredible. jon: it looks like a globe. it's not. that's, what, the milky way, the bright band in the center. >> the milky way galaxy is at the center, the energy at the ...