THE SONG THAT KILLED OFF THE NATS Verligte young Afrikaners had been turning against the National Party since Van Zyl Slabbert become a Progressive Federal Party MP in the mid-1970s and then later its leader, alongside the indomitable Helen Suzman and the likes of Alex Boraine, Tiaan van der Merwe and Colin Eglin. But it was on in the late 1980s, with the rise of alternative Afrikaans music, that the Afrikaans youth really starting turning against their elders. The Voelvry tour packaged that sentiment among the various varsity campuses - and this song, more than any I believe, spoke to the gatvol-ness of a generation sick of being forced to prop up apartheid through military conscription and tired of our countrys isolation as global pariahs. So heres to the late Johannes Kerkorrel, who I remember seeing live in The Barn at the PE Opera House in the late 1980s. https://youtube/watch?v=LRiS-53XHPw
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:45:19 +0000
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