Black Diamonds - Sise N'dleni (We are on the way, 1974)
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Channel: Jan Tak · 2011 · Music
The song "Sise N'dleni" appears on side 2 of this 45 single from Southern Africa. Side one contains a rendition of "Nkosisikelela Africa" (God Bless Africa). Thank you Mlungisi Sigasa for the translation of the title!! According to the Matsuli blog, it was issued in Angola just after the Portuguese military coup that led to the independence of Mozambique and Angola in 1974. The Dawn label specialized in South African soul and instrumental groove and spanned the early half of the seventies. Co-incidentally it was also the name of the journal of "Umkhonto we Sizwe", the guerilla army of the African National Congress. Today the term Black Diamonds has come to refer to the increasingly affluent black middle class in South Africa. http://matsuli.blogspot.com/2011/06/god-bless-africa-black-diamonds-and.html
