The oldest dance in Africa, Xho-pera and the klopse

One of Bush Radio’s oldest programmes is called Backchat and it sees almost 20 guests (activists, NGOs, social movements etc) come through and onto the airwaves per week. But we have a saying at Bush (one of many), “that a little bit of sugar makes the medicine go down”, so from time to time the Backchat team which consists of Bassie, Siviwe and Natasha bring in some interesting musicians and artists to lighten up the studio.

So whether it is learning the oldest dance in South Africa or experiencing a new musical form like Xho-pera, we thought we should share a small sample of these acts here:

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Win with Lira (@Miss_LIRA) and 89.5FM

Bassie Montewa (who will announce the winners) and Lira

Bush Radio is giving 3 lucky listeners the chance of winning a set of double tickets to the Lira Captured Tour performance happening at Grandwest, this Wednesday, the 26th October 2011 at 7pm.

If you would like to stand a chance of winning in this lucky draw, sms Lira and your name to 32158 by no later than 2pm on Tuesday the 25th October. The winners names will be announced in Backchat after 3pm.

Enter often to improve your chances of winning.

Sms cost R1,00 and free minutes do not apply.

Some postive rap (Afrikaans)

A few children from Fisantekraal who are part of a project called Peace and Love International came to the Bush Radio studios and were interviewed by Bassie on Backchat. We asked them to perform a song for us.

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Some of the reasons we set the trend

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