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Radio 4,12 Jul 2003,60 mins

The Story of Township Music

The Archive Hour

Available for over a year

Johannesburg-based journalist Ofeibea Quist-Arcton looks at how music thrived alongside events such as the Sharpeville massacre, the Bantu Education Act, the Soweto Riots of 1976 and, of course, the fall of apartheid.

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