"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 i
nterviewed in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1998 by Mr. Ole Reitov Listen to interview
1998: Sipho Mabuse and Ray Phiri, musicians from South Africa, in a first face to face meeting with former censor, Ms. Cecile Pracher, manager of the record library at SABC.
“Buying artists to advance some political party’s cause may not be censorship, but more often than not, it will lead to self-censorship,” writes Mike van Graan from South Africa
The Irish singer Bono’s defense of a controversial song has triggered heated debate. Supreme Court in South Africa is considering whether the song should be banned
The South African band Freshlyground was banned from performing in Zimbabwe after releasing the music video ‘Chicken to Change’ which mocks Robert Mugabe
On 26 March 2010, a South African high court prohibited the singing of a controversial anti-apartheid song, ‘Ayesab'amagwala’ (‘The cowards are afraid’)
