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Article: Four in tune with the townships: On the day that South Africa goes to the polls, Euan Hagger profiles a group of self-taught classical musicians who have set an example of racial harmony to the strife- torn township of Soweto
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 26, 1994
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Mafikeng, Bophuthatswana, is where, last month, the world's
cameras recorded the summary execution by a black policeman of two
Afrikaner rightwingers in the ferment of the run-up to South Africa's
first multi-racial elections. It is perhaps the last place on earth
where you would expect to find a lavishly equipped pounds 20m audio-
recording studio, less than a five- minute drive from the scene of
the killings. It is still more surprising to walk inside to find a
group of black classical musicians from Johannesburg's townships
finishing off a recording which could launch them into the
international limelight. In the week in which South Africa goes to
the polls, the Soweto String Quartet ...
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