ARTISTS HAVE A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
We are trying to bring about a consciousness among our artists to be aware that they are cultural workers and that they really fall amongst the working-class so that they are able to form unions and be protected by unions and that is our task at the moment.
… Artists should, like politicians or military men, be able to perform songs, dances and whatever paintings or pictures, that are relevant to the struggle, otherwise we don’t have any way of identifying ourselves as South Africans. I mean we could be anywhere else but in South Africa, because what we will be singing about is what we are about, that is who we are, and who we are – we are a people in struggle.
Source: Jonas Gwangwa, “Artists Have a Moral Responsibility”, Sechaba, July 1986.
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