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Date: 1995 - 2005 [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Region: Africa [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]
Subject: Explicit Sexuality [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Medium: Music [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Artist: Mbongeni Ngema
Confronting Bodies: African language radio-stations at the South African Broadcasting Corporation
Dates of Action: December 1997
Location: South Africa
Description of Artwork: Ngema's track, "Ubhuti," reprimands a woman for "killing a man with her vagina."
The Incident: According to a station manager at Ukhozi FM, the Zulu language was "too sensitive a language" to use in speaking overtly about sex.
Results of Incident: Eight radio stations banned Ngema's song.
Source: Index on Censorship, 2/97 [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]]
