Music from South Africa!

Riders on the storm:
Six South African guitarists contribute to a unique version of a classic rock song by The Doors.

Valiant Swart - Horisontaal:

Piet Botha and Jackhammer - 'n Suitcase vol winter.

Max Normal - essentially a softer Die Antwoord

Freshly Ground - Doo Be Doo.

A huge hit in SA around 2008, almost to the point of annoyance.
Great song however.

Inspirational classic South African rock.

Big Sky - Waiting for the Dawn.

The song to get many South African parties going.

The rebel song from the 1980s.

eVoid - Shadows:

Song about the Boer War.

Bok Van Blerk - Afrikanerhart.

Valient Swart - Song vir Swakopmund.
Filmed in the haunting desert landscapes of Namibia.

Trance music of the Bushmen (San) people, from the Kalahari.

It opens with a musical-bow (Kora).

Trance and healing dances are often induced simply through rhythmic clapping, shuffling and singing.

A traditional context would be that a hunter could walk the thirst-lands for days or weeks, without ever seeing another human being.

When people did meet, it was always a reason to celebrate, and dance.

The oldest music in South Africa and the World?

The medicine dance of the San (Bushman) people.

Anthropological film, 1966:

Laurike Rauch's version of Kinders van die wind, a famous Afrikaans song and poem by Koos Du Plessis:



The imagery is clearly influenced by SA's long and often desolate coastline, and by the many shipwrecks.

Here is an approximate English translation by Jan Tik:

From the Afrikaans poem “Kinders van die Wind” (Children of the wind)
by Koos du Plessis.

I know an age-old song
about life’s joys and woes;
about shipwrecks long gone
to the cellars of the sea.

The words are lost forever
but still, the tune persists —
like a dimly recalled image
from a very old folk tale.

Visions, dreams, and names,
have been scattered by the wind
and where all the words went
only a child could see.

Nomads, with no direction;
Seekers that never find…
In the end, we are all just
children of the wind.

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Peter Gabriel - Biko.

The song describes the global outrage at the death of the Black Consciousness (BC) leader Steve Biko.
Biko probably died under apartheid's police torture.

However, some would argue his philosophy was not an endorsement of the ANC.
The ANC allegedly later channeled BC youth into their globally funded camps, and some were tortured (to death) by the ANC.

Nevertheless, Biko was a great man, and a giant of his generation.

Bok Van Blerk - Spickerish.

A song about rugby, and a much appreciated former commentator.

Bok Van Blerk - Ons vir jou Suid-Afrika (We for you, South Africa).

"Struggle Songs": a clip from SA news on the role of music and song in contemporary ANC election campaigns:

Misty In Roots - Jah Bless Africa.

A pan-African song and anthem.

A lively medley of Xhosa and Zulu songs by the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Choir:

Some darkwave ROCK from S.A: