… This is a time when the fruits are growing out of something that was sown a long time ago. It’s not like these are the fruits of just liberation. Those kids who grew up so fucked up, the people who were tortured in the ’70s and ’80s—they’re 30 now. That’s where a lot of the crime also comes from—people who have been like, dehumanized, and they feel no hope. Hopeless. If you were to kill everybody and start anew, then stuff would be anew and then you could have hope for a new day. But the fact is, those people are still alive.”

25 year old Soweto-born artist and sometimes Malmö, Sweden resident, Spoek Mathambo (also known as the “Post-Apartheid, Post-Hip Hop Posterboy“), has views. This is Mathambo speaking in an interview with hipster music culture magazine, The Fader.