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uSolomoni kaMahlangu (by Bongani Magatyana)

from Village Harmony South Africa Camp 2015 by Village Harmony

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Taught by Bongani Magatyana.

Part of a longer work Bongani wrote for a competition of songs dedicated to Mahlangu, a 23-year old freedom fighter captured by police on his return from extended exile abroad. He was tried and hung in 1979, symbolically on the anniversary of the creation of apartheid.

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A: Isizalo sika Marta, isizalo sika Marta, was'zalela, was'zalel'
Isizalo sika Marta, isizalo sika Marta, was'zalela, was'zalela indode mnyama

S: Ndiyasoyikisizalo, diyasoyikisizalo
sika Marta, was'zalela, was'zalela
indoda / indode mnyama

T: Ngo fifty-six South Afrika, Pretoria
was'zalu Marta
was'zalela, was'zalela indode mnyama

B: O, hay' ndiyasoykisizalo
sika Marta, o hay'
wasizalela
indode mnyama/indoda

u Solomoni ka Mahlangu
wayeyi ndonde namandla
ezabalazela thina, ezabalazela elilizwe

SAT: Wakhe washiye lilizwe
waya elubhacweni uMahlangu

Respect the womb of Marta. She gave birth to this strong man.
He was a strong man, he was fighting for his country.

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from Village Harmony South Africa Camp 2015, released February 10, 2017

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