Makaya Ntshoko is celebrated, in the town of Basel, a centre for Jazz studies which has absorbed his influence, the Jazz Against Apartheid movement, a depository of the johnny Dyani compositions which has extended his collaborative approach to future generations in South Africa and Europe and by his nephew, new jazz drummer Kanu.
16th December 2023 at Steve Biko Arts Centre in Ginsberg Location, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
In the video message to South African Jürgen Leinhos mentions “Stolpersteine” (stumbling stones), an initiative that “planted” thousands of stones with the names of Jewish people carved on it who were expelled from their houses and apartments and deported and killed. You can find those stones all over now – also in smaller towns such as…
Establishing a system and chain of art academies in the Eastern Cape is a core focus of Professor Peggy Luswazi. Her blueprint is a process of rural industrialisation, based on naturally available resources. This could create job opportunities and contribute to arrest the massive brain drain of thousands from rural areas to find no employment…