Botswana: Steve Dyer Comes to Mochudi

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I could never understand how one of South Africa's premiere black actors, Ken Gampu, was able to comment at Dennis Mpale's funeral service in Orlando East South Africa: "How did a white boy like you learn to play like a black man?"

Steve Dyer had just made his musical contribution to the musical service that assembled some of South Africa's leading voices including Jonas Gwangwa, Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi, Caiphus Semenya, Barney Rachabane, Sophie Mgcina and Thandi Klaasen. I guessed that Gampu's generation had to be given time to outgrow the walls constructed on the prejudices of South Africa's old apartheid regime even though the country had achieved majority rule in 1994.

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