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HAVING A BALL Faces of the new Sophiatown 5 So the police would wait for you outside. You’d leave the club, a car with doors so rusted he describes it as a “moving they’d take you to the police station, then you’d sleep over and sculpture,” take me to Soweto. This township is home to go to court the following morning and pay the fi ne. You’d go almost 900,000 residents, mostly black, who settled here back again to the club and do the same thing. It was a way during the apartheid era, when the government seized of fi ghting the regime. We fought the system through our Johannesburg and the suburbs for themselves. We stop music—and through our persistence.” briefl y at Vilakazi Street, where Nelson Mandela lived in a In the late ’50s and ’60s, as former Sophiatown residents tiny bungalow in the ’60s (it’s now a museum). Just down dispersed into Meadowlands and other parts of Soweto, the street is Desmond Tutu’s former home. the African jazz of Masekela and Makeba drifted there too, We pass shacks and shanties, house parties spilling into evolving into a funkier, more rigidly rhythmic style known the streets and street-corner food joints, eventually arriving as mbaqanga, or township jive. Paul Simon tapped into at News Café, a dance club in a strip mall on the edge of the this style on Graceland, collabo