Article: South African Teens Dance Their Way To America

Dave McCormack
Los Angeles Sentinel
06-30-1994
South African Teens Dance Their Way To America.

BY DAVE MCCORMACK

Special to Young Ideas

Under the yellow glow of street light Molaodi and Gugu are dancing. The scraping of the soles of their newly fitted shoes on the concrete sidewalk is oddly fitting accompaniment to the waltz that wafts thinly from a box radio sitting on a set of front steps. A few neighbors dot the yard across the street, drawn outside purely by the uncommonness of this display. They are the first spectators of an event that is unprecedented on this quiet Alhambra street, and possibly in the entire country. The first of what may add up to be thousands of onlookers over the ...

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