As ageing British pop star Elton John prepares for the start of what has been billed as his first tour of South Africa on the weekend, locals are recalling his real first in front of South African audiences at the height of apartheid 25 years ago. If John can claim today he never played in South Africa it’s because Sun City, where he played 25 years ago, was back then part of Bophuthatswana - one of the nominally independent, overcrowded “homelands” where the apartheid state dumped millions of blacks. John’s tour kicks off in Cape Town on Sunday before moving to the port city of Durban on the...
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