“They called me a White Kaffer and the secret police were tapping my phone,” tells Anton Goosen, the South African singer/composer who was considered a traitor amongst the white Afrikaaner community. Anton Goosen was Interviewed in South Africa in 1998 by Mr. Ole Reitov.   Listen to interview

1st FREEMUSE WORLD CONFERENCE ON MUSIC AND CENSORSHIP Copenhagen, 20-22 November 1998 The text below is an excerpt from the conference report   This page in printer-friendly PDF format     South Africa: The Censored meet their Censor – Music and Censorship during Apartheid in South Africa Mr. Sipho Mabuse and …

“I was a shadow player. We played behind curtains. It was a black guy playing behind the stage and a white player up on the stage,” tells Pops Mohamed about one of the more peculiar and dangerous effects of censorship in South Africa during apartheid. Pops Mohamed was interviewed in …