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Dudu Pukwana: Baloyi
by Chris May
Joshua (as in the Walls of Jericho) had nothing on this. The opening track of Dudu Pukwana & Spear's debut album In The Townships (Caroline, 1974), with Mongezi Feza on trumpet and Louis Moholo (as he then was) on drums. ...
read moreThe Blue Notes: Refugees From Race Hate
by Chris May
In late May 2022, three months into the war in Ukraine, the plight of refugees is at the front of our minds. Around five million Ukrainians have become refugees and another seven million are displaced persons inside their own country. The apartheid-era South African refugee crisis was not on this scale. The number of internally displaced persons was, however, massive: between 1960 and 1994 an estimated three and a half million black South Africans were forced to resettle in the ...
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