Herbie Tsoaeli

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Affectionately known as "Malume", Herbie Tsoaeli is a bassist, composer, arranger and a 2013 Best Jazz Album South African Music Award winner, for his debut album African Time.

The incomparable jazz musician, is considered as one of South Africa’s leading bass maestros and hails from Nyanga East, in Cape Town – one of the more politically charged black locations in the Western Cape.

Coming from this community at the forefront of producing South Africa’s rich jazz legacy - rooted in his biographical experiences - his music is a nuanced expression of the black community.

Afrikan Time Music and Black Theology, in Conversation

by Ngwako Malakalaka
October 8, 2024

To mark South Africa's Heritage Month and Steve Biko's commemoration, Herbie Tsoaeli, the South African award-winning jazz bassist and the “Centre for Black Thought and African Studies," presented a conversation and a live jazz performance on “Black Theology and Afrikan Time" music. The discussion was about black liberation theologies in their quest to make sense of the lived realities of black people on the backdrop of the liberatory message of Christianity. To inspire and respond to ...