Weeping (song)
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title:
Weeping (song)
text:
"Weeping" is an anti-apartheid protest song written by Dan Heymann in the mid-1980s, and first recorded by Heymann and the South African group Bright Blue in 1987. The song was a pointed response to the 1985 State of Emergency declared by President P.W. Botha, which resulted in "large-scale killings of unarmed and peaceful demonstrators against racial discrimination and segregation in South Africa." Defiantly, the song incorporated part of the melody to Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, the anthem of the
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1987 single by Bright Blue
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_(song)
date created:
2007-09-14T21:11:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T10:01:54Z
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