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…
Culture is a wheel of understanding one another or telling a story that cannot otherwise be told as a collective.
Due to the parallel streams of oppression, suppression and depression, South African exiles and their European counterparts worked tirelessly to promote the cause of a long-term and sustainable freedom, both musically and politically.
South Africa…
Poet Vusi “Macingwane” Mchunu told who was at the inaugural event and went on to record the life and passing of Johnny Dyani in the journal African Cultural-Literary Journal AWA – FINNABA that he co-produced and edited in West Berlin in 1984 – 1987. He performed poetry at a number of the JAA events
JAA is first of all a series of concerts organized by both musicians and
political/cultural activists. It is searching for allies and supporters and
remains a free association of people dedicated to the cause of freedom and individual and social solidarity and responsibility.
Jazz Against Apartheid: “Beyond Exile” contributes to this knowledge within South Africa of South African music and musicians and what they continue to stand for.