A Re Gopoleng sings for youth's troubles
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
One member of the group, Kagiso Magano said “Although our songs speak mostly to the youth of today, everybody can learn from the songs as they address issues that affect humanity like dangers of excessive alcohol intake leading to the HIV spread and road accidents.”
He explained that choosing gospel as a music career was driven by the fact that they wanted to show the world that gospel is not only music for elders as the youth can also sing it well.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...