And he revelled in that most demotic and subversive music, jazz.

ECONOMIST: Eric Hobsbawm, historian, died on October 1st, aged 95

But in its brutal structure of white power and black penury, apartheid also contained visceral drama, stories of humanity willing and waiting to break out in a demotic exuberance which in his township work Mr Fugard caught so well.

ECONOMIST: At 81, Peter Brook turns to Africa to keep himself young