Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile Dr. Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Soweto Civic Association, made one last attempt to persuade the police to allow a memorial service in St. Paul's. When that request was denied, Motlana entered the church and pleaded with 300 people seated in the pews, "Let's win freedom on our own terms." Some heeded the various warnings and went home. Others headed for Jabavu Stadium, where thousands had been waiting hours to participate in the memorial service. Their patience was rewarded with bursts of tear...
...with that intriguing name, subtitled Accordion Jive Hits, Volume II. Simon played it all during the summer of 1984, hearing in its unsprung beat echoes of old rhythm and blues, '50s style. The music on the tape turned out to be mbaqanga, or "township jive," from the streets of Soweto. Simon became obsessed. In January 1985, he took off for South Africa and began to record with Soweto's Boyoyo Boys, Tao Ea Matsekha (a group from Lesotho), and General M.D. Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters. "It was very interesting," Simon reports, "but very strange...
...West with six rhythm tracks. He listened to them, chasing through "lots of culs-de-sac. I would think the melodies were in one place, and I'd find them in another." (Five of the tracks were used on the & finished album.) He got passports for his three-man Soweto rhythm section to come to New York City for some additional recording, where "the same culture shock that I had experienced in South Africa, they experienced here. One of them asked me where they had to go to register with the police...
...Peace-prizewinning bishop of Johannesburg, last week bid an emotional goodbye to his diocese. But before taking over as Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Anglican Church for all of southern Africa, he conducted a final service at St. Paul's Church in the black township of Soweto. In his farewell sermon, Tutu declared, "Despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free...
Tutu becomes archbishop amid a flood of violence in Soweto...