Legacy Series presents Mama Africa Tribute

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Legacy Series presents Mama Africa Tribute

Live at the Basement  

Date: 23 March  2024

Time: 18pm doors open 

Door: R300.00 (quicket), R350 (door)

Venue: Untitled Basement

INFO:

Venue Address : UNTITLED BASEMENT (ARTIVIST), 7 Reserve Street, Braamfontein

Entry is on a first come first serve basis for ticket holders.

Show info:

Doors open at 18H00, Performance starts at 20h00

Expect two sets of approximately 45-60 minutes each with a 15minute interval.

Presale tickets are unreserved.

For table reservations, pre-show dinner and drinks email: bookings@artivist.co.za 

or book online: https://forms.gle/grkacCKchZsSbXDd9

Miriam Makeba was a songbird destined to spread her wings, and fly all over the World, using her GOD given talents enthralling audiences wherever she went.  

The inherent humanity of a young Miriam Makeba possessed was never in question. It was the expression of African Beauty and talent that the rest of the world had never associated with the African Continent. To say that she was a trailblazer was an understatement. Socially conscious, immensely talented, culturally comfortable, Miriam Makeba’s signature voice enchanted audiences all over the World. Teaching us and reminding so many of us, in her inimitable way that, in essence, although the brutality of an Apartheid South Africa regime that she was born into, Miriam Makeba was uncompromising in addressing the fact that Man’s cruelty to another could never cancel out an essential reality we all live with. Specifically, that racism is ugly, dead-end hatred.  

The ideals and values of the late Dr. Miriam Makeba live in the Foundation which bears her name, and the Miriam Makeba Centre For Girls in Midrand, Johannesburg. Giving expression to the deeply held beliefs Miriam Makeba embraced throughout her lifetime – specifically, that Women, especially young women deserve committed resources to empower those women that society has disempowered. What else captures the essence of who the late Dr. Miriam Makeba was as a person? We would be hard pressed to find an answer to that question. 

Needless to say, the power of Mama Africa’s voice activates in so many of us, deep impacting memories, where our emotions have been easily touched because a lasting connection has been made that will last a lifetime and for generations to come. 

Her music has influenced many well-established female artists such as: Thandiswa Mazwai, Angelique Kidjo, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Simphiwe Dana, Somi, Zenzi Makeba Lee (the granddaughter who wrote the song “Homeland”) etc. just to name a few. 

For more information please contact:  

Mr. Mandla Baloyi: 

Cell: 081 074 4043 

Email: jbmandla15@gmail.com 

Advocate Sipho Mantula 

Cell: 079 565 7799 

Emails: rasgideon@gmail.com or mantusg@unisa.ac.za  

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