Disclaimer This timeline covers a sampling of major political, social, and cultural events in South Africa, with special emphasis on apartheid and South African jazz. It does not purport to provide a ...

This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jonathan Butler, the South African recording artist who has been inspiring audiences since his international breakthrough in the mid-1980s, will be performing with the ...

FILE PHOTO: South African trumpeter Masekela, who was once married to singer Makeba, leaves after paying tribute during MMakeba?s memorial service in Johannesburg JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa ...

Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...

Bokani Dyer is not just a leading figure in contemporary South African jazz, he’s also a living link to its history. His father, saxophonist Steve Dyer, was part of Medu, a radical multi-disciplinary ...

The great South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela was honored with a Google Doodle on Thursday, which would have been his 80th birthday. A marvelously gifted trumpeter, composer, singer, and ...

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

Thursday's Google Doodle pays tribute to Hugh Masekela, a legendary South African jazz musician and anti-apartheid activist. The Doodle marks what would have been Masekela's 80th birthday. The ...