Singers Miriam Makeba and Paul Simon attend the opening of Mbongeni Ngema’s anti-Apartheid play “Asinamali”.
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The transition form apartheid to democracy was pockmarked with violence, death, and distrust. But what a soundtrack those days had, writes Pieter du Toit.
South Africa’s transition from apartheid state to multiparty democracy was pockmarked by violence and death, stop-start negotiations, distrust, and fear.
Those are all vivid memories.
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