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Jonas Gwangwa often turns to the piano to drive a point home in South African Blues
ANC

Exile, exhilaration and Jonas Gwangwa’s case of the ‘South African Blues’

The 1990 documentary ‘South African Blues’ offers insight into the effects of exile on Jonas Gwangwa’s psyche

  • Kwanele Sosibo
5 min read
Trailblazer: Ndikho Xaba explored new horizons within jazz and indigenuos music. (Courtesy of Nomusa Xaba)
ALAN PATON

Unruly native till the end

The jazz maestro was an activist first and foremost, and created his own unique instruments and style

  • Kwanele Sosibo
3 min read