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PJ Powers is one of South Africa's best known singers. She started her career during the apartheid era of the 1980s and became the first white woman to perform to an all-black audience in the Soweto township. PJ became a prominent anti-apartheid activist sharing the stage with black South African musicians and eventually singing at Nelson Mandela's inauguration as President.

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Published on Wednesday, 16th November 2016.

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