Johannesburg was not born, as other cities are. It was invented overnight when gold was discovered in the shallow sedimentary layers of the edge of a prehistoric lake, now forming…

‘African jazz’in Johannesburg developed as part of a tenuous effort to establish social institutions, and settings for the creation of community in a segregated context. For performers themselves there were…

Apartheid demonized and marginalised the cultures of the vast majority of the people of South Africa. Colonialism, built as it was on the assumption of extending ‘ civilisation’to the indigenous…

I was in my chambers some years ago when I received a message from reception that somebody calling himself Henry had arrived to see me. Henry had telephoned a few…

In the early heady days after capturing power in 1994 following more than 300 years of colonialism and apartheid, policy gurus of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, chief among…