South Africa's Kwaito Generation
A radio documentary on Kwaito made earlier this year and broadcast on NPR. We've been caning some of the cds we bought while we were in South Africa so I was looking around to see what were the latest kwaito hits. Haven't listened to the doc yet but did browse around the Reporter's Notebook a bit, lots of interesting stories there about kwaito and about life in South Africa today.
Somehow the subject changed to Capetown, from where I'd just returned. It's gorgeous there, though white and black people have very different opinions of it. I was told that all the white people live on the front side of Table Mountain - this beautiful flat-topped edifice with a cloud forever clinging to its scalp and foaming over the edge - whereas all the black people live on the other side of the mountain where it just looks like an ugly, sheer wall. I was told that black people are completely cut off from the rest of the city, that Capetown is one of the, if not the, most segregated parts of South Africa.Posted by alokem at October 7, 2005 10:37 PM