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IMAGE & SOUND
GALLERY
PERFORMANCES
Mac McKenzie &
the Goema Captains
of Cape Town
Maveric
Jethro the
plakkerskamp poet &
Les Javan
Mzwandile Matiwana
Adeson Nchimbe &
Salay
Samkelo
Suga from Ghetto
Maffin
FILMS
What goes around comes around
by Thabo Mvumvu
Rifle Road
by Akin Omotoso
Machine Gun Mementos
by Arya Lalloo
Isiko
by Paul Cuba
Vanishing Cultures
by Siphiwe Nkosi
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Jethro
is thin, wears short dreadlocks and torn clothing, and is missing his
top front teeth. The police assume he is a two bit felon and constantly
harass him.
In fact Jethro is a poet and a former Western Province athlete. He
writes and performs in English and Afrikaans. For the last few years he
has been performing both solo and as part of the Khoi Khollektif. The
Khollektif is a group of musicians and poets gathered under their
Khoisan heritage and desire to rewrite the disturbed representation of
the Bushmen people and their culture. The Khollektif includes Garth
Erasmus, Loit Sôls, Leslie Javan and Monica Botha.
Jethro has achieved high acclaim in Cape Town, recording and releasing
as part of the Wondergigs live recording series in 2002, featuring on
various Cape Town Festival stages and at poetry events such as Urban
Voices. He is regularly invited by government to perform at events
relating to arts, culture and language - he was a feature of the 2002
World Trade Summit in Johannesburg. During the era of the Monday night
poetry sessions – at Café Camissa and then at Papa’s – Jethro
established himself as one of the city’s most compelling voices. His
words follow in the tradition of social critique offered by griots like
Bob Marley and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Jethro loves to walk. One year he walked from Cape Town to Grahamstown
to perform on the street and sell self-produced copies of his poetry. He
regularly walks home to Kalkfontein from city a distance of some 35
minutes by car from the City. The walking, he says, provides good time
to think and compose poetry.
Jethro is in the process of recording an album at Funhouse Studios. The
single Nou Ry Gou Ry will be released in November.
Go to www.coffeebeans.co.za/music_jethro.htm
for more.
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