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Music Resource – Dusty Springfield in S Africa

BBC Radio – Witness

Dusty Plays South Africa

Duration: 10 minutes
First broadcast: Monday 24 December 2012
In 1964 the British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa. She said she would only play to racially mixed audiences but the authorities didn’t approve. She was forced to leave the country before she had finished her tour.