How important is it for the local cultures of South Africa to be maintained?
This is very important because it takes the children back and it makes the children demand that this music be taught at school, because all along everyone has looked down on this music. But because of Black Mambazo, now the children are demanding that this music be taught in school. Which means that we are the witnesses of the old people who now say that their dreams have come true. A lifelong dream of yours has been to create a Mambazo academy of African music and culture. How far along are you in the realization of this project, and have you received any international assistance? So far, there is no help. But I can say this, help is the [LBM] supporter and they support us internationally and locally. My dream from the beginning was an academy where I am going to teach the teachers who can understand how to teach the people how to remember the traditional things, and how to combine that with the knowledge from the school, not divide it as before. Financially it is hard, not hard becau
