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Carol Martin loves jazz and enjoys getting to know the musician’s story, the how’s and why’s of developing this artistry. She writes these stories, not to critique or ‘review’ the artistry, but to highlight what drives or motivates the artist to do what she/he does in this type of South African music. Why THAT sound and where does it come from?
Some 180 articles, written over a 12 year period (2012-2025), posted mainly on the All Jazz Radio Internet Radio website Blog, contained her interviews and discussions with musicians about their journeys in improvisational jazz expression that represents the various ‘moods and styles’ they personally encounter and put forward. She has recorded what they would like to reveal, and has narrowed down this collection to 150 articles which tell their stories. [See more under Background]

The ICESCR campaign is a civil society campaign to advocate for the ratification of the ICESCR and the OP-CESCR), by the
South African Government.

This submission focuses on analysing the budget in relation to combating Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and femicide.

Commissioned Report for High Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa.

To provide for the transfer of communal land to communities; to provide for conversion into ownership of land rights in communal land to communities that own or occupy such land; to provide for the transfer of ownership to communities and community members of land acquired by the State to enable access to land on an equitable basis; to provide for the right to use by community members of land owned by the State; to provide for registration of communal land; to provide for conditions of registration of communal land; to provide for general plans for communal land; to provide for the award of comparable redress; to provide for land rights enquiries; to provide for acquisition of more land for use as communal land; to provide for the choice on the administration of communal land; to provide for the establishment of households forums by communities; to provide for community rules; to provide for the establishment of communal land boards; to provide for dispute resolution mechanisms; to provide for the provision of municipal services on communal land, to amend and repeal certain laws; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

The Communal Land Tenure Bill (CLTB) of 2017 was a draft bill in South Africa that aimed to regulate communal land and provide security of tenure. The bill was intended to address the legacy of land insecurity and inequality that resulted from apartheid. The goals of the bill were to provide the right to use state-owned land for community members; register communal land; establish general plans for communal land; provide comparable redress; establish land rights inquiries; acquire more land for communal use; establish household forums for communities.