Of strong winds, heavy hearts and Joseph Shabalala telling the South African story

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[ANALYSIS] Of strong winds, heavy hearts and Joseph Shabalala telling the South African story

Even with my weak command of the English language at the time, I understood the idea of homelessness and so the song easily spoke to me. Its Zulu phrases highlighting “” also spoke to my experience of a heavy heart and separation in potent ways, ways my little mind couldn’t communicate or fully process.Scott Suchman/WireImage

I realised that this song did not just tell my story or was about an experience unique to me. It was about our collective history. It was about the history of black South Africa and those from surrounding countries trapped by a migrancy-mining complex which would institutionalise family separation and consciously ignore its bleak aftermath.

Winning hearts in England also makes the case that Ladysmith Black Mambazo “has arrived”. This ‘arrival’ relates to the success of managing to escape apartheid’s government-prescribed limitations around the social and economic conditions for them as black people. Ladysmith Black Mambazo as such exceeded the black man’s relegation to the status of labourer. Performing abroad removed them from industrial labour.

 

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