In a society where you could be jailed for owning a politically incorrect painting, serious art was forced underground and blandness ruled in the galleries and theatres. The most striking example of this was the bulldozing of both District Six, a vibrant multicultural area in Cape Town, and Johannesburg's Sophiatown, where internationally famous musicians learned their craft in an area once described as 'a skeleton with a permanent grin'. Groups such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo have managed to bring South Africans sounds to a wide Western audience, both during and after apartheid.  (source)

• Numerous other South African musicians and artists became ex-patriates from the brutal apartheid regime
• South Africa music develops its "crossover style"
• Introduction to South African music 
• musical examples: Ladysmith Black Mambazo (external link),