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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Senzeni Na
Description: This is an anti apartheid song sung by the Songshine Choir at the Anita Reed Peace Concert held on 21 May 2023 at the Coorparoo Memorial Hall. The song was led led by their musical director Greta Hunter who has a beautiful soprano voice in a call and response refrain so common in African music.
Origins of the song are not clear. I know the song was sung at Steve Biko's funeral. Zimbabwean poet Albert Nyathi wrote a song by the same title, "Senzeni Na?" on the day that activist Chris Hani died.
The lyrics very but these are some with the...