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POPS MOHAMED
(South Africa)
01 January 2001

"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 Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1998 by Mr. Ole Reitov


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