Uhuru Network to stage music festival( 07-12-06)

yi Toyi arts Kollektive and Josh Meck and Maonero.
There will be stalls exhibiting various Zimbabwean organisations and movements, and selling arts and crafts. Refreshments will be available.
Organisers said they hope the festival will raise awareness on the oppression faced by Zimbabwean people today and unite the Zimbabwean Diaspora and South Africans in coming up with creative solutions for freedom in Zimbabwe.
“Music is the key as we bring together rising, outspoken artists from both countries. Artists whose message and music are both rebellious and new, truthful and innovative,” they said in a statement.
Fire on the Mountain are one of South Africa’s most respected grassroots hip hop movements, uniting dozens of MCs across the country. Samm Farai Monro, better known as Comrade Fatso, is among Zimbabwe’s top resistance poets mixing poetry, hip hop and chimurenga to create a funky, anarchic afro-beat sound with his band Chabvondoka.
The Uhuru Network is a network of youths struggling for social justice. Based in Harare’s high density communities, the network uses creative ways of mobilising ghetto youth to fight for their rights, ways ranging from radical arts performances to community media initiatives, from street clean-ups to subversive soccer battles.
Uhuru has recently infected Jo’burg where it now has an Uhuru Solidarity Desk, which distributes democracy material and raises awareness about the Zimbabwean struggle. – Staff reporter