 | This song is a splendid testimony to the conditions (and the music) which arose in Johannesburg around the early part of the 1900s. The Afrikaners were decimated after the Boer war and they left their farms for the mines. English speaking South Africans and foreigners also streamed into the Witwatersrand -- famous for producing 40% of all the gold ever mined from the earth. The mixed language used in this recording was long frowned upon by the Afrikaner establishment -- perhaps the primary reason this song had disappeared into obscurity. Unfortunately I was not able to obtain a complete copy, so I had to reconstruct the beginning by snipping out a section in the middle of the tape. The end is also missing, but enough has been retained to make this post worthwhile. I also do not know who the singer is (perhaps someone can help), but the song appears to be from the 1930s or 1940s. The video has obviously been added later as the last Johannesburg tram (which appears in the video) ran in 1961, but it does seem to indicate that the music was recorded by His Master's Voice. | Views: 15  0 ratings |
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Friday 4 November 2011
Dit is die Plek vir my Jo'burg (This is the Place for me Jo'burg, 1930s)
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