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The first batch of artists for the 2018 Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) was announced on Tuesday, and, even on this showing, it’s clear the event will offer a festival recognisable as ‘jazz’ even by the most hardcore purist.

It’s misleading to look at the bill of fare for all five stages and whinge about the “lack of jazz”. Good music of all genres – with a few tempting morsels of jazz – happens everywhere, but the jazz festival mainly happens upstairs, on the Rosies and Molelekwa stages. That is made possible in business terms by the massive footfall those other multi-genre offerings attract to the Cape Town International Convention Centre, and plenty of audience members these days prefer to listen across the boxes.

Sometimes there’s an aberration: a jazz name predicted to attract a big audience will be placed on the Kippies stage with its difficult, cotton-wool acoustics, leaky sound from outside and grubby, grungy, noisy ambience. Maybe they’ll get that stage right in 2018 too..? We can hope.

It’s never just about the visitors in Cape Town. The South African names are equally important and it’s an assertion of the depth and uniqueness of South Africa’s jazz tradition that our own musicians, as much as the Americans, can draw on e

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The inductees comprise prolific vocalist Msaki, jazz musician Linda Sikhakhane, poet Koleka Putuma, visual artist Lady Skollie, ‘Theatre Duo’ Mahlatsi Mokgonyana and Billy Langa as well as choreographer Thami Majela.

Putuma’s first volume of poetry, Collective Amnesia, was published by uHlanga Press in 2017. This was followed by her self-published collection Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In (2021). Putuma’s sense of her craft and role as a poet is informed by the wide-ranging legacy of various South African wordsmiths, including stage divas and literary greats.

Mokgonyana and Langa officially became ‘Theatre Duo’ some seven years ago, but the two have worked together since they met at the Market Theatre Laboratory, producing several works with Langa as the writer-performer and Mokgonyana as the director-dramaturg, including their landmark project Tswalo. Among other accolades, the play has won a Cape Town Fringe for Best Directing and Performance, a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in 2018 and a Naledi Theatre Award in 2020. It has toured widely in South Africa and Europe.

Lady Skollie, born Laura Windvogel-Molifi, is a committed activist who tackles a range of subjects through her work, in particular the

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