RC 261018Kaya 959Brenda Sisane
Sunday, 18 October 2026
Sunday's Jazz Standard centred on Sbongile Nene's book on land and Henry Finn's diary, with a preview of Kesivan Naidu's new album and Grammy ballot news.
- 16:31
Nene argues land restitution only covers land taken after 1913, so centuries of earlier dispossession sit beyond legal claim, and her book traces how contracts enforced that.
- 15:57
Nene says Natal was annexed by force in 1843, when Queen Victoria's army marched into Durban, using a land paper King Shaka had marked with an X.
- 16:01
Nene says King Shaka never wrote a letter, yet oral tradition preserves his last words, which Finn's diary leaves out, showing written records can omit what matters.
- 17:02
Kesivan Naidu's new album We Dance at Home grew from concert encores, since most of the works were written to get South African audiences dancing.