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editorial
KHADIJA TRACEY HEEGER
Redefined
GEORGE LEWIS
New Music Decolonization in Eight Difficult Steps
GIORGIO AGAMBEN
The Supreme Music. Music and Politics
Theme Social Impact
SAIDIYA HARTMAN
Riot and Refrain
THOMAS BERNHARD
Executioners
WILLEMIEN FRONEMAN & STEPHANUS MULLER
Music’s “non-Political Neutrality”: When race dare not speak its name
STEVEN ROBINS
Spectres of Racial Science at Stellenbosch University: From Eugen Fischer’s Eugenics to the Department of Sport Sciences’ Retracted Article
MOHAMMAD SHABANGU
Education as the Practice of Freedom: Towards a Decolonisation of Desire
CHUMANI MAXWELE
The Solitary Protest That Gave Birth To #RhodesMustFall
SISCA JULIUS
Chappies bubblegum
EMILE YX? JANSEN
Heal the Hood & World with Afrocation
MESULI NALE
Move For Two: Educating for Leadership Through Dance
SARAH MALOTANE HENKEMAN
On the Social Impact of Telling Your Own Story in Your Own Way
ACHMAT DAVIDS
The Social Impact of Language: The "Coloured" Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town
JACKIE SHANDU
On the Social Impact of Self Hatred
AZOLA DAYILE
Imbamba – Uthunyiwe: On the Social Impact of Migrant Labour
YAMKELA F. SPENGANE
On the Social Impact of Name Changes
ANELE NZIMANDE
On the Social Impact of Motherhood
ZIYANA LATEGAN
Problems of and for Philosophy
galleri
JOAN OTIENO
Art as the Social Impact of Repurposing Waste Materials
GARTH ERASMUS
Xnau
GARTH ERASMUS
Virulent Strain
ANDREA ROLFES
Not the Paradise Garden
MZOXOLO VIMBA
Sunday best, kakade!
ROCHÉ VAN TIDDENS
Four Compositions
JAMES OATWAY & ALON SKUY
[BR]OTHER
borborygmus
ZIYANA LATEGAN
Invention as Ideological Reproduction
LETTA MBULU
Not Yet Uhuru (Amakhandela)
TUMI MOGOROSI
De
ANDREA LEIGH FARNHAM
A bad relationship with the truth
DAVID MWAMBARI
On the Social Impact of Reading Radical Literature
PHIWOKAZI QOZA
Choreographies of Protest Performance: 2. Somatic Communication and the experience of intensity
DUANE JETHRO
Shangaan Electro: shaping desire @180bpm
CLARE LOVEDAY
WOMEN IN MUSIC.co.za - A website for South African women music practitioners
ERNIE LARSEN
Escape Routes
LIZ SAVAGE
Myanmar: a post-colonial tale of fear, treachery and hope
STEVEN CRAIG HICKMAN
Weird Literature as Speculative Philosophy
frictions
VANGILE GANTSHO
"we have forgotten who we are"
JETHRO LOUW & GARTH ERASMUS
21st Century Khoisan Man
LUCY VALERIE GRAHAM
Seven settler poems
SERGIO HENRY BEN
Some Monday shit.
RIAAN OPPELT
The Boys in the Box
TRICIA WARDEN
Five Poems Two Songs and a Video
JOHAN VAN WYK
Man Bitch
ARI SITAS, GEORGE & DEBBIE MARI
Cold was the ground - A Requiem for Elephants Too**
ARI SITAS, GEORGE & DEBBIE MARI
Cold Was The Ground- A Requiem For Elephants Too* Part I
ARI SITAS, GEORGE & DEBBIE MARI
Cold was the ground - A Requiem for Elephants Too** Part II
claque
JANNOUS NKULULEKO AUKEMA
Something of Inexplicable Value: A Resurrection
FRANK MEINTJIES
From collective to corrective: South African poems of decolonisation
KNEO MOKGOPA
“This Bloodless Wound” - A Review of Kirsty Steinberg’s Confrontation
RONELDA S. KAMFER
Avoiding the obvious routes: Jolyn Phillips deconstructs the legend of Bientang
UNATHI SLASHA
Partaking in the Séance: Preliminary Remarks on Lesego Rampolokeng’s Bird-Monk Seding
WAMUWI MBAO
There are no barbarians: Michel Leiris - more phantom than Africa
ESTHER MARIE PAUW
Jess Auerbach's From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola
MBE MBHELE
Not nearly a review of Ontologicial Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation by Calvin L. Warren
MBALI KGAME
Mphutlane wa Bofelo's Transitions: from Post-Colonial Illusions to Decoloniality What went wrong and what now?
MALAIKA WA AZANIA
Why Do I Scream at God for the Rape of Babies?
TOAST COETZER
Country Conquerors: van blikkiesband tot firebrands – on the Social Impact of Rastafari
GEORGE KING
One Disc, Two Composers, Four Works: When Seven Defines the Music of Friendship
ERNESTO GARCIA MARQUES
Live Jimi Presley: white noise a la Neubauten
ekaya
DEREK DAVEY
Dodging the sjambok
CHRISTINE LUCIA
A Reflection on the Mohapeloa Edition
THEMBELA VOKWANA
Towards a Decolonial South African Musicology: Reflections on Christine Lucia’s Michael Mosoeu Moerane Scholarly Edition.
ANKE FROEHLICH & INGE ENGELBRECHT
Genadendal Music Collections Catalogue: an introduction
off the record
PETER DELPEUT
The Forgotten Evil pilot project digital version
PETER DELPEUT
The Forgotten Evil pilot chapter 5 charisma
PETER DELPEUT
The Forgotten Evil pilot chapter 9 The Forest of Astravas
PETER DELPEUT
The Forgotten Evil, pilot chapter 11 character
LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI
When Echoes Return: roots, diaspora and possible Africas (a eulogy)
VEIT ERLMANN
The Disappearance of Otherness: ‘Africa Civilised, Africa Uncivilised’: Local Culture, World System and South African Music
IGNATIA MADALANE
From Paul to Penny: The Emergence and Development of Tsonga Disco (1985-1990s)
NIKLAS ZIMMER
Basil Breakey: Jazz contacts, Jazz culture.
OLIVIER LEDURE
Ted Joans
SAM MATHE
NDIKHO DOUGLAS XABA
CAN THEMBA
The Bottom of the Bottle
DANFORD TAFADZWA CHIBVONGODZE
Jonah Sithole’s Sabhuku
feedback
ALEXANDRA DODD
herri: a plenitude of material, ideas, sounds and voices
FACEBOOK FEEDBACK
Social Media Responses to herri issues 1 - 4
the selektah
ZARA JULIUS
A call for renewed internationalism: A sonic liberation front
PhD | Nicola Deane
DECENTERING THE ARCHIVE:
Visual Fabrications of Sonic Memories
NICOLA DEANE
FRAGMENTS By Way of Introduction
NICOLA DEANE
PASSAGE I: SURFACES A Surface Reading of the DOMUS Archive: framing space & time
NICOLA DEANE
PASSAGE II: INVAGINATION A Subjective Fold of the DOMUS Archive: a pocket of one’s own
NICOLA DEANE
PASSAGE III: NOISE A Hauntological Reconstruction of the DOMUS Archive: the noise remains
NICOLA DEANE
PASSAGE IV: THE MASK (De)Scripting the DOMUS Archive as Faceless Protagonist
NICOLA DEANE
ELISABETH UNMASKED by Nicola Deane
NICOLA DEANE
CONCLUSION Irresolution
hotlynx
shopping
SHOP
Purchase or listen
KOLEKA PUTUMA
Black Girl Live
contributors
the back page
MIKE VAN GRAAN
Covid-19 and its Existential Challenge to Theatre
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JETHRO LOUW & GARTH ERASMUS

21st Century Khoisan Man

Summer time

Jan Fiskaal en Gert Tarentaal kom met die donkies teen die pas uit genael.
Advertensies op elke teerpaal dui die rigting aan.
Daar na die asval plaas opstal.
Nou so het dit ook tyd geword om af te saal
Want summer time het ons ingehaal

Jan Jan is ‘n man van staal
Sy donkie staan al reeds vasgemaak aan ‘n paal
As die son oor die randjies daal
As die vabyl val op Aliwal
Dan hoor jy die knal tot op Wupperthal
Nou dans die stomme poppe naak en kaal
Op die jaarlikse masker bal
Alles gebeur op die betaal kanaal
Vir spiraal moet ‘n man geld uithaal
Al speel die tv vaal
‘n man moet die license betaal

Ek is ñ descendent van Xam my mense en hulle kultuur speel af en op tussen Carnavon en Beaufort West op donkie karrietjies so met skaapskeur en draadspan. Dieselfde Xam van Lloyd en Bleek. In die lig skryf ek. Ek bring hulle aan die wat was voor my en ons. Ek skryf as ek op hou sal die klippe skryf en elke punchline sal my seer maak. As iemand ‘n creative klip in die bos gooi moet die wat in die bos is respond. Hulle of hulle hond. Die hond se response is een van twee dinge dreig of aanval.

Die Ghoema

Die ghoema issie past
Afrikaaps issie future
400 jaar is ñ langpad op ñ ongeduldige roete
Vir al die creativity betaal ons nou nog ñ boete
Papsak semi sweet of ñ soete
Dis ñ salaris met ñ salute
Ons staan sterk bene op ons voete
Want die Most High besorg vir ons met goete

Die ghoema issie murmur 
The people’s out cry
Die rhythm wat die batteries laai
As ons braai worship of testify 
Moetjies deel vir ñ fraai
ñ Nuwe hoek vir ñ song uittri 
Om die berg en die baai 
Protocol en politics en hoe ons deal met daai

Die ghoema is ñ pleidooi in die afwesigheid van ñ stem
ñ Abstakte embleem 
Wat as eenheid onder die slawe dreun
Die ghoema is ñ temprament 
ñ Streeks kenteken in sit opstaan loop en beweeging 
Die ghoema is n kulturële wapen 
In die afwesigheid van ñ potlood en ñ pen 
Het die ghoema rhythm die wedloop gewen

Dis die struggle in woorde en sinne
Ons heimwee memory en herhinderinge
ñ rond staanery oor die dagse dinge
Die drome en worsteling hier diep binne
Die spirit van slawelinge 
Met die voicing daarvan nou iemand annners sinne
Wat neerkyk op dailect as onkunde

Plant tyd

Die landskap lê omgeploeg
En die osse staan moeg 
Die seisoen was die reën genoeg
Die natuur was bedroef
Die wind is om die huis en teen die vensters soos ń boef
Die winter was op ń anner groove
Jou move Pokerface speel sy proef
Hoë spanning 
Druk pungent owder deurie siffie
In die donker waar die son nie belig nie
Die vraag is was dit genoeg?
ń  goue gloed het die nuwe dag begroet
En die leier staan teen die stoed
Hande vol bloed
Terwyl Rhodes spieël vir ons voor hou
In die berg lê ñ vrou 
Wat die naritive follow 
Kama uitbeleeding written in stone

Ghoema 2

Staan uit met die original pride gam
Laat die bunny eers een kant toe staan
Ghoema die Lordse paslm
Singet soe lat vyand saam hum
En sy hare daai way kam
Doenit vuur en vlam
Druk ñ gejubel onner die mabalang
en die innocent accuse wat mang
Dis tyd om saam te staan

Die Cape is ñ kledingstuk vir ñ superman
Ons bly hier teen die ocean
Smellie herb
Me no lotion man
Net alo en cocoa butter op die tan
Die ghoema hou dit organic, no spam
So sound die native stem
Dis ñ urban en rural jam
Kreoël met ñ inheemse kern
Ma daai deel van ons inheemse kennis lê barren

Want das niemand wat hulle daaroor ontvêrm nie
Daarom sal elke knal van die ghoema nog kerm en kreun
Soos Augustus se ag dae reën
ñ agtergrond aan die trauma verleen
Van inheemse kennis vervreem
Ma roots hou die culture modern
Die oubaas kom found nou ook ñ glasie
bitter kruie boben
Snaaks in inheemse huishoudings is dit uncommon 
Dis nou asof ñ man praat van die wisdom of Solomon
Dis net wa hulle ons con.

Mama

Op ‘n pad van djare gelede
Binne ‘n moment in die hede
Sirkel ons en draai ons om dieselde rede
Die een wat kom en die ander wat gaan
Oor die karoo vlaktes tussen Beaufort-Wes en Carnavon
Ontwortel en ontgrond
So word die herhinderinge gefoto en geraam

So word gister vasgevang

En teen die muur gehang
Mama se jeug djare op Papdam
Nou gedoop Hansfontein
Geleë op ‘n koppie se kruin
In die karoo ‘n semi-woestyn
Dit het ha siel ge-eien
Da het die ou kêrel die donkies uitgespan
Toe die tyd vir hom begin stil staan

Insig

Die dag kies sy oomblikke
Die dag kies sy tyd
Net soos die vis byt
Hier teen die wai of op die skuit
Jolyt daais ‘n faith
Dis ‘n hewige debate of late
My mes is al kant geslyp
Nie vir klei trap nie
Vir create
Want honger staan vier treë voor uit

Gooi jou lynne uit
Enn so dobber die dag se droom
Vlink oor die branders
Die winter son staan en kyk koud
Marie Johanna met voor behoud
Haal die blou uit
En die suid ooster waai weer
Woester sonder sous

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