Singing in fear: Zimbabwe's musicians - 01 Aug 2007

Freedom of speech is not generally encouraged in Zimbabwe, and President Robert Mugabe is clamping down on citizens who are too outspoken.

Hundreds of musicians, traditionally vocal about politics, have fled Zimbabwe, which as a result hasn't produced a well-known artist in over a decade.

Haru Mutasa discovers why the few musicians still brave enough to speak out about politics, do so in fear.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• zimbabwe
• musicians
• south
• africa
• aljazeera
• jazeera
• al-jazeera
• haru
• mutasa

[sarahsonglines]

Beautiful and impressive . This video reminds all of us who live in comfort, who have few material worries, how privaleged we are. It reminds me that we should take courage into our hands and do something with all that freedom.

[hlathiboy]

This is so grat. Makes me miss home so much.

[KevDook]

what a shame. My heart bleeds for the people of Zimbabwe. See my music vid on democracy in South Africa for a satire on politics just South of Zim - search on YouTube using words Zuma and Mbeki ... enjoy ...

[ruwette]

Its always about who is ruling who. People are suffering in Zimbabwe. Reasons can range from poor governance all the way to 'destiny'! We (HUMANS) should raise awareness to the world and make those in better positions help. Zimbabwe's streghtn at this moment lies in accepting the fact that its people need assistance in all the different shapes it might come in. Peace be with the people of Zimbabwe.......

[lebambi]

This is too easy, Aljazeera has lost it morale compass. What those people are saying has no evidence to back their story, any one can go in front of camera and say the South African president is killing people for singing songs. Any one can make allegation against any one; aljazeera reporter run out of story to report about, and had to go and make people sing for their little western audience. What a bunch of moron. They probably think we will let the UK decide who should rule Zimbabwe.

[wsieg]

Good video. Thank you.