The spirit, life and art of Tsepo Tshola, pastor of South African pop
I grieve to start this way. No sooner had I struggled to find some means to say my goodbyes to Mabi Thobejane and Steve Kekana, than South African music lost singer and composer Tsepo Tshola. DAVID COPLAN, Professor Emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand These three masters of the nation’s musical soul were famous, but not celebrities. Because they never acted like that. Complex personalities and talents, they all possessed that son-of-the-soil joviality that made them ever accessible and “simple” in the reverent way South Africans use that adjective. I remember, in 1978, during one of my many research…