The Afrikaans struggle

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The obituary of British anti-apartheid campaigner Bruce King makes reference to his marriage to his South African wife, Jamela Adams. It describes their wedding in “a Muslim ceremony in Cape Town” in 1964 in defiance of the Mixed Marriages Act. The couple left for England (presumably to have another ceremony there), and was then predictably refused entry back into South Africa. They then moved to Tanzania. But there’s this tidbit about their time in Tanzania:

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Madlib Samples Radio Freedom

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It’s probably that bit of Radio Freedom dialogue from “Catch a Fire“? (I think I heard he had a South African or African liberation movements connection in his family.) It does not matter as he is brilliant either way.

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