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AIDS-struggle singers hit HIV-positive note
The Star. Reprinted courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.
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Once there were The Beatles, The Doors as well as The Eagles. Now there are The Generics, a group of HIV/AIDS activists who have joined forces to produce an album to raise funds for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
The album, called Jikilele, features some of the group's most popular AIDS "struggle songs", which have been adapted from the apartheid era.
Jikilele hails South Africa's AIDS heroes such as Gugu Dlamini, who was stoned to death after making her HIV-positive status public. The songs also criticise the government and the pharmaceutical industry.
Most of the choir members are HIV-positive and have received payment for their work. But the TAC, which fights for affordable treatment for those with HIV, says funds raised from album sales will be used "to keep the TAC wagon rolling".
The album is on sale at music stores for R69,99 a copy. |
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