Three chords, three countries, one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the | dG1fcDVfUUU5ajZCTzQ
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00:00You
00:24If you think about those days was easy all you had to do is
00:28strap a guitar on
00:30Swear at the people play some fairly aggressive music
00:39The struggle of black kids in Soweto in the uprising and
00:43The struggle of white kids to understand why they didn't want to go to the army and go and kill people
00:50those kind of met
00:52And out of that came this kind of music
00:59Oh
01:07The vice squad would visit us
01:09Sometimes three times in one day. It was a minefield of race
01:14legislation that we just sort of
01:16Stepped our way through
01:23If there's enough
01:24Brain, oh, that's a good one with my hood. Goose. You know a spring run for a music
01:29It took me this was a right to get a demons, man. I'm gonna kick. What might the owens?
01:33Don't take nice a bitch. It's quite music myself. Did you testara?
01:36I
01:50I'm not gonna like say, you know, it's my fault and have all this guilt and say I'm not really African because you know
01:58I'd like I actually am
02:06Tell me
02:16The black-and-white sort of culture starting to meet and it's creating a new sort of sound, you know
02:22I mean, it's not like straight-up thrash
02:24Punk, it's like a little bit of African sort of element, you know
02:29We were in a kind of a closed society
02:32Maputo was the capital so it's been
02:35Probably one attack or two maximum. We were really like closed and locked in this town because they blocked us
02:43You know somehow they the war blocked us in this place
03:01For me
03:10To start with we used to play music, you know to conscientize people, you know
03:14Make you aware of what's happening in the country
03:16If I try to suddenly, you know, run a massive campaign against any PF
03:20I might not be able to see my family tomorrow in Zimbabwe
03:31I