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...Saturday morning before sunrise the crumbling YMCA on Beatrice Street near the Durban waterfront resounds with music and foot-stomping. Once this South African port city on the Indian Ocean hummed day and night with Zulu stevedores hauling ship cargo. Now in the small hours, the docks are quiet, but inside the Y, isicathamiya choral groups are pulsing. Isicathamiya (i-see-ca-tah-me-ya) encompasses elements of Zulu ritual celebrations and American gospel and ragtime. Opening for concerts in the late evening, the Beatrice Street Y offers a dim, sweltering performance hall one flight up crooked wooden stairs...
...Mambazo to international popular culture, promoting this a cappella ensemble as a global emissary of isicathamiya and its sonorous hymns of protest and healing. For years apartheid repression haunted this music, with verses mourning loss of ancestral land to European farmers and love eroded by the distance between a Zulu migrant worker and his rural family waiting for him and his wages. Now in South Africa many isicathamiya performers no longer denounce white minority rule. New lyrics portray Africans straddling rural tradition and urban modernity, and dreams of well-being and the reality of suffering in a world of multiracial...
...iron adherence to horrible working conditions in his mines and a migrant-labor system that paid blacks far less than whites. He admitted his failures and, 10 years ago, stepped up efforts to end apartheid, recognizing the A.N.C., funding black education and bringing together Nelson Mandela and Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi just days before the first all-race election, thus averting a civil war (see Eulogy, below...
...network of well-established walks, trails and camping facilities to bring backpackers into closer contact with community-based tourist services. Escorted tours extend even to remote cultural homelands where visitors can watch Ndebele potters and beadworkers create their wares or admire the sandstone and ironwood creations of Sotho and Zulu sculptors...
THABO MBEKI New South African Prez puts Zulu rivals in Cabinet. Almost as saintly as predecessor...