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"Soweto, Monday 27 July 1987. A father mourns his son. The apartheid state restricts the funeral. Crowds sing militant freedom songs. The police ban cameras. A microphone remains. The funeral of Peter Sello Motau – assassinated by a secret South African Police unit, a teenage activist who left South Africa to become a commander in the military wing of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress – is a snapshot of oppression and resilience, of tears and defiance, of an intervention by Winnie Mandela." […] "Clicks, bumps and abrupt endings remain, a reminder of the rawness and the swirling dust of that Soweto winter Monday." This tape, an audio document of a place in time, is dedicated to those who were there – “the cassette is mightier…” TTW#138, copyright 2021 The Tapeworm.