Anti-apartheid anthem writer. Arrested for singing in a migrant labour hostel. Providing solace to ANC members in prison. Giving hope for the future.
"As I’m planning this, I’m living in a parallel universe with my condition. My chemo kind of carries me through until January and after that, it’s no man’s land. So I want to do as much as I can now and put all these things to bed."
"I’m fit now, but the oncologists say you have to entertain the fact that it might be an illusion because you have all this chemo in you, that is just keeping this [cancer] at bay and it has a finite lifespan. But when I am on stage and performing, I feel like I can do this forever. It’s a massive contradiction in my brain.""Every performance that we've done is very bittersweet for me.
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