TODD MATSHIKIZA (1921Ð1968) Celebrated journalist, author, composer and pianist, Todd Matshikiza brought a distinctive voice to JohannesburgÕs cultural life in the 1950s. He composed the music for the pioneering jazz musical King Kong, and wrote the choral cantata Uxolo. His witty, incisive columns written for Drum, captured the rhythms of urban Black experience. Forced into exile, he died in Zambia, and his remains were repatriated to South Africa in 2025.