WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020Ladysmith Black Mambazo
founder who took the choir to
international acclaim
Joseph Shabalala’s Zulu group was one of the driving cultural forces in a
South Africa emerging from the grip of apartheid
Shabalala fronts Ladysmith Black Mambazo during the concert for Nelson Mandela at the Albert Hall, London, in 1996 (Rex)
GARTH CARTWRIGHT
Back in the 1980s few would have predicted that a Zulu vocal choir would break out of apartheid South
Africa to win a vast international audience, but Ladysmith Black Mambazo achieved just this. The choir’s