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...because he wanted to make music that fused the traditions of his hometown with a modern, national sound. “I have a sound,” Shabalala says. “I have a dream. I have something that we can do better.” Albert Mazibuko, the group’s current spokesman, joined Ladysmith Black Mambazo during a time of transition. According to Mazibuko, Shabalala had dissolved his previous group shortly before approaching Mazibuko, his cousin. Almost 50 years later, Shabalala still leads the group, which now includes Mazibuko and four of Shabalala?...
Soweto, the sprawling black township which houses most of Johannesburg's Blacks, suffers from the world's highest crime rate. "Most of Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...
Blacks find most of their white countrymen prejudiced. Mazibuko, the former schoolteacher, believes racism is rampant among whites. He worked with many whites who toned down their bigotry, "but it always surfaces." He condemns the lack of interracial communication. "In South Africa, it's racism that's reinforced by ignorance and the fact that when you're born into a racist society, you don't have a chance to make your own judgements," he said. Denis Beckett, editor of the new liberal monthly Frontline, offers a caveat. White South Africans are in his view no more racist that whites elsewhere...
...describes the fight against terrorists in South Africa as a battle against Communism. Other whites liberally stick the Communist label on Black opposition groups. Mazibuko finds widespread support among Blacks for Marxism, although most Blacks lack a good idea of Marxian thought, since Marx's writings are banned. But the blame for the widespread popularity of Communism must fall on the apartheid system, which makes Blacks so miserable and leads them to seek radical alternatives as the only way of bettering their...
...collision of white intransigence with Black aspirations makes revolution inevitable. Tofile expects a violent revolution to erupt within the next five years, if not sooner. Mazibuko sees a pattern of steadily escalating urban violence, with terrorist attacks on civilians. These incidents will be met with massive Government retaliation, which in turn will cause a mass, uncontrolled Black uprising. Beckett believes South African has about a 1 per cent chance of avoiding revolution. It will be a very long and drawn-out struggle, unlike any revolution in history, he said, adding that there has never been a revolution in a country...