In 1987, Sello ‘Chicco’ Twala approached his producer Attie van Wyk with a new song, We Miss You Mandela. The anti-apartheid icon had been in jail for more than 20 years and the people missed him.
Chicco wanted to communicate the sentiment of the black South Africans. But it was immediately clear inside Powerhouse Studios that such a song would never play in South Africa.
In apartheid South Africa, censors were ready to ban books, songs, art and even people who expressed anything against the racial segregation and gross injustice…
