Home Brewed: A little old African jazz, a little New Orleans

"There weren't many cocktails in Sophiatown," chuckles Jurgen Schadeberg, chief photographer and photo editor of Drum magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. "The closest most people came was a quart of beer with a nip of brandy thrown in; then hastily downed before the shebeen got raided. It tasted terrible!"Until the forced removals of 1955, musicians, artists, intellectuals and political activists from all over the country found relative sanctuary in Sophiatown, where people of all races still had ...