Banners and posters can be torn down but music lives forever right?

Hot on the heels of the Kloof Street poster and the madness that followed it being torn down is this, titled ‘Zuma Must Fall’ and performed by Don Clarke & Special Care. This is what IOL has to say:

Clarke, who won the songwriting competition for SABC’s Bafana Bafana song for the 2010 Soccer World Cup and also wrote the official Splashy Fen song, Hey-Na-Splashy, said they wrote Zuma Must Fall “out of concern”.

“I’m not a terribly political creature, but as is my wont, when moved by anything I take up my guitar. So the song got made.

“There is no question that before the bus crashes completely, we must remove the driver – and assess the damage from there,” said Clarke, whose hit songs include Hotline’s Sanbonani…

[Thembiso] Sithole [aka Special Care] said he had worked with Clarke on many productions and when they discussed the state of the current government leadership and what South Africans were subjected to, he felt a need to be part of the song.

“We had to express our feelings and I wrote lyrics which would tell people why we were saying Zuma must fall. I voted for Zuma and had to explain why I now want him out,” he said.

Sithole said for a long time he had observed how South Africa lacked in many areas, where the government had to act, but never did.

“Even in the past, Madiba promised us many things like free education, but how things are turning out is not what South Africans had been promised. The current leadership is now focused on feeding their families. We love Zuma and I voted for him, but I am no longer happy about him.”

You’re not alone on that front Thembiso.

Thoughts on the song guys?

[source:iol]