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Showing posts with label Nozinja. Show all posts
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Friday, July 5, 2013

Meet Nozinja, the Simon Cowell of Soweto's Shangaan electro scene

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Inside the fortnightly Top Ten Dance, where the former mobile phone repair shop magnate runs the rule over the township's most dazzling dancers

"You are not going to believe your eyes," assures Richard "Nozinja" Mthetwa, as we drive up to the car park of a food market behind a police station on the outskirts of Soweto. "The way they dance and move; it's like they don't have any bones!" He's trying to describe the Shangaan dance style, but he can tell I'm struggling to picture what boneless dancing might look like. "Just wait," he says. "You will see. The people go crazy."
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