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Zimbabwe Township Music Video Produced, Directed and Researched by Joyce Jenje Makwenda. An award winning film documentary in 1993 at the Southern African Film Festival (SAFF) were it received a Special Mention. In 1994 at the Journalist Awards Zimbabwe Township Music was awarded the Journalist of the Year Award. Zimbabwe Township Music Film Documentary is a celebration of age-old popular music, which was evolved by the early urban settlers as far back as the 1930’s. Urban culture in those days was a product of mixed traditional, contemporary and Western influences, which all moulded into the unique township music. It is therefore the musical off-spring and melodic fusion of several tribal and cultural urban settlers in the early Black townships; typified by such variants as kwela, tsabatsaba, marabi and afro-jazz. The Township Music of the era marked the beginning of Zimbabwean Popular Music/Culture. Entertainment was hard to come by in those days so by providing it musicians fulfilled a particular need in the Township. Township Music often became a symbol of identity and dissent in the Black townships, which did not go so well with the authorities of the day. As the political situation became tense, the music went under around 1963, when the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland came to an end. At Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, Township Music resurfaced and trickled slowly back into the country. The Zimbabwe Township Music Film Documentary features the following musicians; Lina and Kenneth Mattaka of the Mattaka Family and the Bantu Actors, Simon and Evelyn Juba of the Merry Makers. Dorothy Masuka, August Musarurwa, Bertha Mattaka Msora of the Mattaka Family, her parents Lina and Kenneth Mattaka were the pioneers of Township Music around the same time with the Juba Family. Moses Mpahlo Mafusire of the De Black Evening Follies, Sonny Sondo and Sam Matambo of the City Quads, Albert Ndinda (Magaisa Ibenzi the Bread Eater), Jeremiah Kainga, Golden Rhythm Crooners, Faith Dauti and Bill Said – Milton Brothers, Paul Lunga – Jazz Impacto, Chingate of the Gay Gaieties the first All-Female group (the first group of nurses to training at the Harare Hospital). Simangaliso Tutani – Broadway Quartet, Pat Travers of the Arcadia Rhythm Lads who sang with a number of groups in the township groups including the City Quads. John White the one man band musician who played his guitar in the trains – these musicians were known as Omasiganda.