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Pieter du Toit | Clegg, Kerkorrel, Rina Hugo and Paul Simon: The soundtrack of 30 years ago

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Singers Miriam Makeba and Paul Simon attend the opening of Mbongeni Ngema's anti-Apartheid play "Asinamali".
Singers Miriam Makeba and Paul Simon attend the opening of Mbongeni Ngema's anti-Apartheid play "Asinamali".
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The transition from apartheid to democracy was pockmarked with violence, death, and distrust. But what a soundtrack those days had, writes Pieter du Toit.

South Africa’s transition from apartheid state to multiparty democracy was pockmarked by violence and death, stop-start negotiations, distrust, and fear.

Those are all vivid memories. 

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