Kwela

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The pennywhistle music that carried South African sound abroad in the 1950s. South African History Online glosses the name as Zulu for get up, and notes that in township slang it also meant the police van. Basil Coetzee started out on the pennywhistle in 1958.

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  1. South African History Online: Basil Coetzee
  2. South African History Online: The development of music in South Africa timeline 1600 to 2004

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