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
2 nodes on the map.
Everyone and everything on the map
Person
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Rashid Lombard
Cape Town news photographer who documented the worst years of the 1980s, including Desmond Tutu being tear-gassed in Gugulethu in 1989, and then co-founded the city's international jazz festival and ran it through his company espAfrika. He was given the National Order of Ikhamanga in Silver in 2014 and died in June 2025, aged 74.
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Rashid Vally
Johannesburg record dealer who ran the Kohinoor shop and paid for the sessions that produced "Mannenberg" in 1974. He put the acetates on loudspeakers outside the shop before the record was pressed, sold five thousand copies in a week, then did a deal with Gallo to reach the rest of the country. He founded the As-Shams label and died in 2024.
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