Special Report Transcript Episode 29, Section 4, Time 22:22

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. // When one speaks to the people that were there they remember the vivaciousness of Sophiatown’s cultural diversity and the magic of its constant and rebellious heartbeat. // The people used to dance and we used to sit here, my mother was very strict, I couldn’t cross the road. I just had to sit there at the stoep and watch. Sometimes I used to feel scared because the way they danced, they just went on their … jumped on their tummies like this with nothing on their bodies and that .

Notes: Joe Louw; Makeba’s Pata Pata; Billboard ‘Jazz at the Odin: 3rd April 1955’; Mumsy Skosana

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