Growing young | Zolani Mahola | TEDxCapeTown

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Zolani takes us through her personal journey of growing up in New Brighton, and takes us back to a protest in 1989, the year of South Africa's last 'Whites Only' election. The protest sound begins as a roar, and turns into a song. A song with an answer.

And it is with song that Zolani tells her stories, and is able to create a space of harmony. A moment of closed circle, a moment of real harmony.


Zolani Mahola is a South African singer and actor. Since 2002, she has been the lead singer of the South African music group Freshlyground.



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