Sakhile: a singular band remembered 40 years on : New Frame
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The struggles of nonwhite South African artists in the 1950s and 60s are well-documented. A talented collection of musicians and singers began to emerge across the country during this period.
– Neil Strauss, “ – Thoko Thomo aka “Shukuma Thoko,” A Common Hunger to Sing . Thokozile Elizabeth Ndlozi has been silent for too long. But like her 1950s namesake Thoko Thomo, the speedball inferno from George Goch known for her high-octave package – she sang, acted, danced, pouted, and teased audiences and fellow collaborators with peerless brio – before being effectively “disappeared” from public memory prior to her actual death in 1995, Thoko Ndlozi, who died on 14 January at 74, just won’t die. Not dying – as opposed to being dead and famous, or alive and unseen...