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 …