Performing together, evading apartheid's enforcers, Sipho and Jonny sang Zulu songs for blacks an whites alike while accompanying themselves on acoustic guitars and various Zulu instruments. In the mid '70s the guitars became electric, and the traditional sounds mixed with the rickytick beat of baganga(township jive and Western pop. By the end of the decade the duo had grown into a full-fledged band called Juluka.

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In the '50s, a street music called Kwela developed. It usually consisted of a steel-stringed guitar, a simple string box bass and two or three penny whistles. Groups of ragamuffin Kwela musicians would travel from the townships to the city centers and play on the street corners. Most of these musicians were young teenagers and even some in their pre-teens. Kwela music soon became a national South African genre and the music industry quickly cashed in on the Kwela revolution. The music died out in the late '60s as a new form of amplified township music called Mbaqanga took over.