Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 288

The King! The broadcaster: Masinga, broadcasts the Durban SABC's Bantu Programme. He has composed songs and written vernacular radio plays. He has translated many English plays into Zulu for broadcasting: like Shakespeare and Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf." King Edward Masinga is known to most South African radio listeners. He rose from herd boy to senior Zulu announcer at the Durban studios of the South African Broadcasting Corporation and takes part in black and white programmes. He has been called the black Noel Coward of Africa. He is a playwright, a comedian, a composer and a singer in his own right.