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South Africa revives groundbreaking apartheid-era musical by Christopher Torchia

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The rise and fall of flamboyant, ferocious Ezekiel Dlamini, a black South African boxer known as "King Kong" who was jailed for murder, inspired a 1959 musical whose black cast performed for multi-racial audiences, testing the apartheid system of that era. Now the musical that helped to propel the careers of singer Miriam Makeba and trumpeter Hugh Masekela is back on the stage in…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 1:16pm on October 7, 2017

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