Transcript for the Piece Audio version of South Africa's Kwaito Generation: Inside Out

KWAITO SHORT SERIES ? SUGGESTED INTROS

PART 1 INTRO ? AT THE END OF APARTHEID, IN THE EARLY 19-90?S, A NEW GENRE OF MUSIC TOOK HOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA. IT?S CALLED KWAITO [?KWY-toh?]... K-W-A-I-T-O. IT WAS INVENTED BY THE GENERATION OF BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS WHO CAME OF AGE AFTER THE RACIAL SEGREGATION LAWS WERE REVERSED. SINCE THEN, THE MUSIC AND THE GENERATION HAVE BECOME THE SAME IN MANY WAYS. BOTH ARE DEALING WITH A WHOLE HOST OF STRUGGLES, SUCH AS AIDS, CRIME AND XENOPHOBIA. BOTH ARE A MIXTURE OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL INFLUENCES. SEAN COLE, OF W-B-U-R?S INSIDE OUT DOCUMENTARIES, RECENTLY WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA TO LEARN MORE ABOUT KWAITO. HE BEGINS HIS REPORT AT AN ALL-NIGHT OUTDOOR MUSIC FESTIVAL SOUTH OF JOHANNESBURG...CHASING A MAN IN A BALACLAVA MASK.

IC: ?A SHIRTLESS MAN...?
OC: ?...I?M SEAN COLE.? [10:31 WITH MUX FILL TO END]

TAG: OUR SERIES ON KWAITO CONTINUES [date/time]. YOU CAN HEAR THE FULL DOCUMENTARY, ?SOUTH AFRICA?S KWAITO GENERATION: INSIDE OUT,? AT [date/time] ON [your station.]

PART 2 INTRO ? AS APARTHEID FELL IN SOUTH AFRICA IN THE EARLY 90?S, A NEW GENRE OF URBAN MUSIC AROSE. IT?S CALLED KWAITO...A BLEND OF MORE TRADITIONAL SOUTH AFRICAN SOUNDS AND WESTERN GENRES LIKE HOUSE AND HIP-HOP. BUT KWAITO AND HIP-HOP HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN JUST RHYTHM. BOTH HAVE GIVEN YOUNG BLACKS A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES THEY DIDN?T HAVE BEFORE. BOTH GREW OUT OF UNDER-PRIVILEGED, SOMETIMES VIOLENT NEIGBORHOODS. IN KWAITO?S CASE, ONE OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS IS ZOLA...PART OF THE TOWNSHIP OF SOWETO, WHERE JOHANNESBURG?S BLACKS WERE FORCED TO LIVE DURING APARTHEID. AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN BIG TIME KWAITO PERFORMERS HAIL FROM THERE. SO... FOR PART TWO OF OUR SERIES ON KWAITO... SEAN COLE OF W-B-U-R?S INSIDE OUT DOCUMENTARIES RENTED A CAR AND HEADED DOWN TO ZOLA WITH ONE OF ITS FAMOUS SONS.

IC: ?HIS NAME?S MAPAPUTSI...?
OC: ?...ISN?T GONNA BLOCK MY WAYS.? [10:18 WITH MUX FILL TO END]

TAG: OUR SERIES ON KWAITO, FROM SEAN COLE OF W-B-U-R?S INSIDE OUT DOCUMENTARIES, CONTINUES [date/time]. YOU CAN HEAR THE FULL DOCUMENTARY, ?SOUTH AFRICA?S KWAITO GENERATION: INSIDE OUT,? AT [date/time] ON [your station.]

PART 3 INTRO ? THIS WEEK, SEAN COLE OF WBUR?S INSIDE OUT DOCUMENTARIES HAS BEEN REPORTING ON A GENRE OF SOUTH AFRICAN URBAN MUSIC CALLED KWAITO. IT WAS BORN OUT OF THE DEATH OF APARTHEID AND HAS SINCE COME TO DEFINE THE GENERATION THAT CAME OF AGE AFTER THE STRUGGLE. IN YESTERDAY?S INSTALLMENT OF OUR SERIES, SEAN TRAVELLED TO ZOLA... A ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE AREA OF THE SOWETO TOWNSHIP WHERE MORE THAN A HALF DOZEN KWAITO PERFORMERS HAIL FROM. THIS MORNING HE BRINGS US THE STORY OF ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS... A MAN WHO?S SO PROUD OF HAVING GROWN UP IN ZOLA THAT HE CALLS HIMSELF... ZOLA

IC: ?HIS NAME IS BONGINKOSI...?
OC: ?...THERE?S HUMAN BEINGS HERE.? [10:55 + :40 MUX--KEEP IN CLEAR TO END FADE.]

TAG: OUR SERIES ON KWAITO IS FROM SEAN COLE OF W-B-U-R?S INSIDE OUT DOCUMENTARIES. YOU CAN HEAR THE FULL DOCUMENTARY, ?SOUTH AFRICA?S KWAITO GENERATION: INSIDE OUT,? AT [date/time] ON [your station.]