South Africa

j0ck3 29 January 2005 02:49 · Member since July 2004

I never really understanded all the fuss about the Works finale in South Africa. Can someone explain it to me?

SergeantPepperDG 29 January 2005 09:54 · Member since July 2004

I think it was because of the apartheid. No blacks were allowed to attend, so Queen was performing for an all white (segregated) audience.

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brENsKi 29 January 2005 10:42 · Member since June 2003

the gigs were in Sun City - but the fact that sth africa was still apartheid-run was all that mattered -
even though blacks were allowed to attend - the audience was segregated - so queen were seen to be condoning this even though Roger has said they weren't aware of the segregation issue and later admitted that the whole thing was an error of judgement on queen's part

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Awesome-O _4000 29 January 2005 10:55 · Member since September 2004

Wait. Didn't Brian say that they performed for both WHITE and BLACK fans?

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SergeantPepperDG 29 January 2005 11:09 · Member since July 2004

Okay... I was wrong. But I had the right idea.

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Mate Filipovic 29 January 2005 22:00 · Member since July 2004

They played 7 concerts at Super Bowl in Sun City, in Bophuthatswana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bophuthatswana

Unfortunatelly, concerts were not filmed... not even audio recording exists, as far as I now.

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Awesome-O _4000 29 January 2005 22:19 · Member since September 2004

Really, that stinks...

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