We Jive Like This - ACE268.5

1991. We Jive Like This - ACE268.5.

TitleWe Jive Like This - ACE268.5
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In00:21:38
Out00:30:22
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Red Friday, Good Friday being performed in schoolroom. Sound continues over shots of Boer memorial and of township streets. The bottle juggler appears. Dibokoane talks about how news of Mandela’s coming release inspired people to prepare pieces for the coming celebration, but that the event was followed by a good deal of violence. Street scenes, soldiers, fires, news headlines, damaged buildings. Mthoba relating an incident that shows how children were affected by the violence. Zulu dancers. Mgcina’s VO explains that "pure" tribal dancing was encouraged under apartheid as it fostered separate identities for the different groups, but today, dance troupes mix elements from a variety of sources. Ernest Moja and Solomon Moroke explaining to Dibokoana that what is seen today is a multi-cultured mixture. Street performance. Moja and Moroke saying that people should come together and stop the inter-tribal killings. Zulu dancers. Semela talking about anti-tribalism; believes that people should know their own bodies better as this would keep them from violence. Dibokoane dislikes the idea of "new South Africa" as he sees the government endorsing black on black violence.

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