SING AND DANCE, MY PEOPLE
Oct 11, 2020
4 minutes
Thuli Madonsela voices@citypress.co.za
PHOTO: ALET PRETORIUS / GALLO IMAGES
‘Did the president just call on the nation to sing and dance in the middle of a devastating pandemic and a battered economy?” This was a question from an equally bemused and irritated friend just after the president addressed the nation ahead of Heritage Day last month. President Cyril Ramaphosa specifically recommended that people dance and sing along to Master KG and Nomcebo Zikode’s global hit song Jerusalema.
At the time, the #JerusalemaDanceChallenge had gone beyond viral globally with more than 150 million hits on Spotify and it had topped the UK Afrobeats singles chart. Not since the Macarena craze in the 1990s has a song and
You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.
Start your free 30 days