Zim Ngqawana

Artist 1959–2011

Saxophonist and flautist born in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, in 1959, who studied at Rhodes, at the University of Natal and in Massachusetts alongside Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef. He directed the hundred-piece orchestra that played at Nelson Mandela's inauguration in 1994 and later built the Zimology Institute to teach outside the formal system. He died in 2011.

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was active in

apartheid era (1994) he directed the orchestra at Mandela's inauguration, at the end of it

is associated with

Zimology Institute he founded it

was born in

Port Elizabeth (1959) New Brighton

worked with

Abdullah Ibrahim after his return to South Africa in the 1990s
Shane Cooper Cooper lists him among past collaborators

taught

Kyle Shepherd mentor and friend until his death in 2011

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