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	[[South African Audio Archive]] [http://www.flatinternational.org/template_volume.php?volume_id=269].		[[South African Audio Archive]] [http://www.flatinternational.org/template_volume.php?volume_id=269].
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		+	Interview with [[Peter Rezant]] by Christopher Ballantine published in ''South African Music Studies'' 34-35(1):229-261 ; 2015.

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	[[Liberty Cavalcade]] programme, 1943.		[[Liberty Cavalcade]] programme, 1943.
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		+	[[South African Audio Archive]] [http://www.flatinternational.org/template_volume.php?volume_id=269].

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−	Among the performers associated with the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]], [[Johannes Masoleng]], [[Petrus Qwabe]], [[Peter Rezant]]	+	Among the performers associated with the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]], [[Johannes Masoleng]], [[Petrus Qwabe]] and [[Peter Rezant]]

	Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).		Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).

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−	Among the ~~members of~~ the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]], [[Johannes Masoleng]], [[Petrus Qwabe]]	+	Among the performers associated with the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]], [[Johannes Masoleng]], [[Petrus Qwabe]], [[Peter Rezant]]

	Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).		Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).

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−	Among the members of the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]], [[Johannes Masoleng]]	+	Among the members of the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]], [[Johannes Masoleng]], [[Petrus Qwabe]]

	Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).		Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).

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−	Among the members of the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]]	+	Among the members of the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]], [[Johannes Masoleng]]

	Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).		Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).

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−	Among ~~their~~ members were	+	Among the members of the company were [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], [[Victor Mkhiza]]

	Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).		Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).

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	An African [[Music hall\|vaudeville]] group founded in 1938 and led by [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], and with the [[Merry Blackbirds]], headed by [[Peter Rezant]], as their resident band. Deriving from the popular [[Darktown Strutters]] of the 1930s they were renamed in 1938.		An African [[Music hall\|vaudeville]] group founded in 1938 and led by [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], and with the [[Merry Blackbirds]], headed by [[Peter Rezant]], as their resident band. Deriving from the popular [[Darktown Strutters]] of the 1930s they were renamed in 1938.
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	Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).		Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).

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	[[Liberty Cavalcade]] programme, 1943.		[[Liberty Cavalcade]] programme, 1943.
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 An African [[Music hall|vaudeville]] group founded in 1938 and led by [[Griffiths Motsieloa]], and with the [[Merry Blackbirds]], headed by [[Peter Rezant]], as their resident band. Deriving from the popular [[Darktown Strutters]] of the 1930s they were renamed in 1938.
-Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays form   the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).
+Their basic repertoire remained a mixture of jazz, ragtime, comic sketches, jubilee and church (amakwaya) music, but they now began to present more ambitious dramatic work as part of their programmes, including short formal plays from the USA and sketches (some possibly even in [[Afrikaans]]).
-The group was drawn into war time service as part of the South African Native Military Corps and utilized by [[Myles Bourke]]’s [[UDF Entertainment Unit]] to perform for soldiers. Spotted by entrepreneur Lt [[Ike Brookes]] during the Liberty Cavalcade for American Soldiers in Cape Town in 1944, for which Brookes had put together a large variety company, some of the members became part of the cast of Brookes’s 1946 [[Music hall|variety]] show ''[[ Zonk]]''.
+The group was drawn into war time service as part of the South African Native Military Corps and utilized by [[Myles Bourke]]’s [[UDF Entertainment Unit]] to perform for soldiers. They played during the [[Liberty Cavalcade]] in [[St George's Park]], Port Elizabeth, from July 29 - August 2, 1943. They were spotted by entrepreneur Lt [[Ike Brookes]] during the Liberty Cavalcade for American Soldiers in Cape Town in 1944, for which Brookes had put together a large variety company, some of the members became part of the cast of Brookes’s 1946 [[Music hall|variety]] show ''[[ Zonk]]''.
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