Wozani Mahipi (Hippies Come to Soweto) - Mahotella Queens

[hughkelly1993]

Like if "Something Wild" brought you here.

[rrrayrrray]

Took me YEARS to track down this song. I first heard it in the movie "Something Wild" with Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffin? Griffeth? And Ray Liotta. Whatever her name is. Finally when the dvd came out the picture was sharp enough to see the music credits!--and then it took more internet research! ha! Great movie btw.

[MsAyofemi]

LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!

[zodiacflower]

great tune

[LeboKunda]

Ngikhuluma ncane isiZulu. (Mi speak small Zulu)

[debstef]

Now THAT's a smokin' tune!

[canadianstudmuffin]

Very moving video. Never heard the song before but loved it. :)

[dynamoehummm]

Thanks! My videos are very lazy at the core. I'm an 'idea' guy. Which is a little redundant. "idea" guys, self titled that is, just realize thats the closest thing to not moving. And not moving is sometimes twisted into being considered "Lazy". Well I write more later.. pfft lol..

Check out candianstudmuffin's channel. Well he's alright I guess, but the Phil McCracken who ah 'stud' seems to be staying with, is a real gem! ;)

[locobuick]

Venerated Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney often played this song in his office at the Duke Street Hospital in Glasgow and found that it had a calming effect on schizophrenic patients.

[Bozewani]

Well what failed with BEE is not the idea, but the implementation of it(how typical of governments), right idea, wrong method. America- War on Terror good idea, attacking Iraq and Afghanistan,Guantanamo, Abu Gharib bad method for example.

How about schooling them(and giving them tax credits as an incentive, and then, only then, allow them to advance?)

[dynamoehummm]

But the right idea, appears to be the right idea but doesn't change or fail into something sinisiter or inefficiency; it was created as the tried and true way all regimes take over democracies. Suspend rights. Habeus Corpus. So Gitmo Abu Gharib bad methodology? Depends on yer goal. And the goal was to stack the system to guarantee whatever plans are not thwarted. Gitmo was perfect execution. Abu Gharib, was a sidebar where some soldiers got caught. I'm sure the admin used this as a positive.

[shesnailie]

thanx for posting that! i've been looking for that song ever since i heard it playing in the movie something wild.

[dynamoehummm]

lol I was looking for years too for the same movie!... lol

[JensLaubinger]

@shesnailie

yeah- this movie rocks! was looking for this song since forever.. even bought the OST, but it was not on it :( i´m so happy to find it here :))

[worotan]

Oh, and also, the shame of being in a country whose PM, Margaret Thatcher, supported Apartheid, and I have never forgotten that to conquer oppression, everything is political. This should apply to the Beijing Olympics, as the Chinese government and its supporters around the world try to argue that sport and politics are not connected, as Botha tried. Who could entertain such oppressors, anyway? Bore these wicked people by leaving to their own self-defeating ends.

[worotan]

Any country coming out of such divisive rule is sure to have major economic and psychological problems, to say the least. One of the worst parts of Apartheid was its blighting of the peoples present, past, & their future - where we are now. This video reminded me of that, and of the strength and pride of the people that overturned a homicidal government;

[dynamoehummm]

Good comments worotan. You appear understandably frustrated as most of us; so if this clumsy attempt at video making helped remind you of something good in this conflict then I'm humbled.

[SeductiveDuck]

Well I'm not going to sit here and list many examples of of economic failure on the part of South Africa. Clearly when you force a population, who does not have the experience and expertise neccisary, into the higher-ranks of businesses unprepared and under the cause of identity, you're going to have poor results.

[dynamoehummm]

Now the last sentence is an interesting statement. And I wasn't debating you on the sentence preceding it. But both would benefit from a specific example. Otherwise, to use your term, very 'lax' effort.

I don't learn anything from this except your opinion; if you gave specific examples, may it could change mine.

[bijeto]

Great song! Even though I don't know the words, I can tell there must be powerful lyrics behind the images in the video. Thank you for posting.

[roccigiovanniberrini]

great editing 5 stars

RgB

[dynamoehummm]

rocciogivanniberrinni:

Thanks very much.. Obviously editing others great music and great photos is easy at best. I'm grateful for the comments and for myself I learned more through pulling these photos together, and being exposed to more music of that time. There are many aspects to the music/movement symbiosis of which I hope to learn more. As an outsider, I would love to hear from those who know about that time and music and would appreciate all views and thoughts.

[Liloba2006]

SA is not better of course, not yet.

Life is better for many people, the same for a few and worst for others.

But that's not the point, whether SA is better or worse...

The short-term objective was to restore a people's inalienable right to control their own resources and determine their own destiny.

The rest is for them and their children to achieve; they might stumble but I believe that in the end, they will stand proudly among the prosperous nations of this world.

[dynamoehummm]

Lilobas comment is the most precise, relative, and powerful comment I've read on YouTube. Well done friend.

[arthur2377]

Because it may not be right now, does not mean that this was right.

[SeductiveDuck]

South Africa is better off now?

[dynamoehummm]

This appears to me as a thinly veiled question masquerading as a pejorative statement implying contempt for the end of Apartheid. If I am wrong, apologies.

[dynamoehummm]

Better off for whom, and how? For DeBeers and offshore diamond mining surely. Nelson? Yes. His ex-wife? No. For a couple million that may not read, but know if they could, nowhere, noone, with a gavel nor gun has words that say they are not a Man; and the dignity and confirmation of that fact surely cannot hinder an already uphill struggle. A man who would sacrifice his humanity for, or measure his success by, the GDP of the same nation that considers him subhuman is truly not a Man.

[SeductiveDuck]

Well little progress is being made on AIDS, infrastructure is falling apart, anti-white racism/murder is being ignored on a massive scale, and many once reputable companies have become the laughing stock of their industries. The airlines are a prime example.

... And don't bastardize economics. Money represents hard work, prosperity, and hopes for the future.

I never said the Apartheid was good, all I'm saying that things are not neccisarily better.

[dynamoehummm]

You cite economic and infrastructure issues and one industry among many as an example of the state of affairs in South Africa.

Most perusing YouTube would not have that knowledge of SA.

So with that analysis, you 'ask' "So South Africa is better off"?  It appears you knew the answer. Not an innocuous question from the uninformed. So my assumption that it was a rhetorical question was accurate.

[dynamoehummm]

I never stated your opinion towards Apartheid, but rather your implication that its end ushered the end of the Better South Africa.

I never bastardized nor implied evilness of economics. I'm degreed in Business, and a business owner, and I love money. I like the aesthetic of the business model and market forces and the benefits you outlined above but hard work not so much.

An axiom of wealth is the key to building a large fortune is to start with a small fortune.

[dynamoehummm]

Economics, as surely you are aware, explain those market forces and their interelationships. Based on critical assumptions. Such as, equal knowledge of products in the marketplace, access to the same, and a competitive market.

guess its who you ask. Myself, I would have been more priviledged than most; I hazard to say you as well. But situational ethics and morality in neither ethical nor moral.

[dynamoehummm]

A man with out knowledge of the marketplace because he can't read, nor freedom to leave a sector of town to have access to products or to earn money all based on his skin, is by definition, not an economic participant.

Nor was the labourer for likes of Getty; but our GDP, certainly infrastructure, and even the airlines of the day, the RailRoad with the luxurious Pullman cars were second only perhaps to Great Britain.

[dynamoehummm]

Or were we better off with our children in school not the factory, and the other 70% of adults voting?

What we Americans cherish more than anything is our inalienable rights; if these rights are not universal but arbitrarily and capriciously bestowed, then no one is free.

[SeductiveDuck]

I don't know the answer, and there is no answer really. Yes on one hand people have equality under the law (save affirmative action), but people there are less healthy, less stable, and murders go un-checked.

Perhaps because you are hypnotized by speech-code and the like you would assume that I'm pro-Apartheid. This is silly emotion-laden nonsense.

[dynamoehummm]

3rdtime, I have never stated you were pro-anything. Do you read what is typed or just post statements without fact, rhetoric as questions, and assumptions without basis?

My thoughts are my own, and I make arguments and pose questions to increase understanding; not as inflamatory and vague statements of opinions based on feeling more than facts and detail.

[SeductiveDuck]

I'll accept your apology. I suppose your anlyzation skills are lax.

[dynamoehummm]

They must be. I'll try harder professor.