Cape Town Data
The South African Music Graph
See who taught whom, who played what and where, on one map of South African music.
See how South African musicians, songs and places are connected. Every connection below is sourced, and every node leads to what we know about it.
The map grew out of our article An Interactive Network of Cape Jazz Musicians.
The network
1 node on the map.
Everyone and everything on the map
Place
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Langa
The oldest township in the Western Cape, opened in 1927 under the Urban Areas Act of 1923 after black residents were removed from Ndabeni. The name is Xhosa for sun and also recalls Chief Langalibalele. Louis Moholo-Moholo and Brenda Fassie were both born there.
Hear the music for yourself