MZWAKHE - Change is Pain (1986)

Shifty / Piranha (Berlin) / Gallo, LC7717
Producer & Engineer: Lloyd Ross
Recording at: Shifty Studios & live at COSATU cultural day.

People's Poet Mzwakhe Mbuli's seminal album was Shifty's biggest selling album ever, despite being banned immediately after its release. A South African classic.

“Change is pain in Africa,
Change is throttled by misdirected surrogates of the world,
Change of a free non-racial democratic system is certain.
Revolutionary change shall set man free from bondage.
And the reigns of autocracy shall fall.”

VA - Beat! Apartheid (1987)

Piranha (Ger) 

German compilation featuring a range of artists from Southern Africa and beyond, including Shifty labelmates Mzwakhe Mbuli and the Kalahari Surfers.

SIDE A:
1. Orchestra Marrenta Star de Mocambique - Masseve
2. Mzwakhe (SA) - The Spear has Fallen
3. Kantata (Ghana) - Let's Save Africa
4. Kalahari Surfers (SA) - Potential Agressor
5. Kalahari Surfers (SA) - Greatest Hits / Teargas
6. Last Poets (US) - True Blues
7. Stella Chiweshe (Zim) - Kasawa
8. Gorowane (Moz) - Thlanga

SIDE B:
1. Oliver Mtukudzi & The Black Spirits (Zim) - Africa
2, Reziana Jaime (Moz) - Nduma
3, 3 Mustaphas 3 (?) - Disco Partisani
4. Lovemore Majaivana & The Jobs Combination (Zim) - Prayer for Mandela
5. Bonga (Angola) - Samora Machel
6. Kalahari Surfers - Township Beat
7. Mzwakhe - Change is Pain