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Marie Daulne, the lead singer for the vocal group Zap Mama, has a personal history worthy of a leading character in a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick. After her Belgian father was slain in 1964 by rebels bent on ethnic cleansing, Daulne, a native of Zaire, and her Bantu mother took shelter with a tribe of pygmies before escaping to Belgium. With a background like that, it's no wonderDaulne makes music that sounds like a one-woman multicultural movement, melding African percussion, American soul and European urbanity...
...Biko led to his death. He remembers the summer night in August 1977 and the roadblock on the highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in Port Elizabeth; the pimply-faced policeman in a shiny suit snarling, "You're going to disappear...
...aims at putting up a million new houses, providing a million others with running water and flush toilets, and bringing electricity to 2.5 million more homes. The plan provides for free and compulsory schooling for children and adult education for millions of blacks who learned almost nothing under inferior "Bantu education." It also calls for diverting public-health funds to provide and improve clinics in the poorest areas...
...General Bantu Holomisa, an erstwhile homeland leader, has earned the ANC another large fine by alleging that "porridge" and "meat" served by the National Party were full of invisible ink. Evidently, the ink would work its way through the body to the knuckles, denying voters access to the polls as it would appear as if they had already voted...
...Bantu's interview was aired into LiberiaTuesday by the BBC on a program entitled AfricaService, according to The Times