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I found this very interesting.

It's a weekly choir competition in Africa.

I got a chance to hear some of this on the radio, some of it sounded similar to American Barbershop. To be honest, when I heard the phrase "Zulu Choir" I was very skeptical, thinking it would just be shouting/yelling, with some stomping. I was pleasantly surprised though, they gather at 10 pm and hold a choir competition every Saturday night. Each choir puts the equivalent of 20 dollars US in and at the end, the purse is divided among the top 3 choirs of that night. The participants are called "tiptoe men" because their performances often include closely choreographed dances, which often involve them on their tiptoes.

"Isicathamiya" translates into "in a stalking approach", which is one of the hunting methods shown in their dances, their songs mostly revolving around that and/or the story of a man, far away from home, whose only wish is to go back.

While the choirs prepare themselves for the competition, delegates from each group comb the streets in search of a judge. The judge must be a White man; he must be unknown and therefore unbiased.

Some tribes have been adopting a policy that allows scholarly black men, and some even let black workers judge, such as policemen, mailmen, etc. Seems kind of odd though because most often the "white man" they found would be some hobo from the street, whom is easily bribed to come judge the competition with promises of alcohol, cigarettes, and a night of good music.

I'd rather be accused of being Totem's puppet, but I guess you'll do.


So... What am I supposed to do now? I guess now would be a good time for me to crack a joke about you having your hand up my ***?

I have been convinced you where skeets sockpuppet since about the fourth post.

On the original Topic the Zulu tribal chanting is one of the most stirring and emotional things i have ever witnessed.

While it did help that i was in a zulu village as a guest of our Zulu nanny and pretty much a guest of honour since i was the baby of the family.
Thier used to be a programme on South African TV on a friday called Lapnongasse <sp? been a while> that was a sort of talent show for the Zulu's, it was great fun to watch and the villages competed on that.

Kwazulu Natal is a wonderful and beautiful place that has been utterly ruined by 150 years of politics.

He denied it, even made him laugh how it was making an effort to be Skeeterlike, so he decided to adopt it.

Damn, I'm Jealous, I wish I could see it, even a recording of it, I'm sure there is so much that isn't captured by just audio recorders.

Would you happen to know of any professional recordings of one? I'd be curious to get my hands on one of those.