Dance is intimately linked to music and performance in traditional society. Even in contemporary popular music, group dance is often a large part of the performance. Dance also appears as a genre of its own, and here the links to tradition can take different forms
One of President Jacob Zuma's daughters has landed a role in one of South Africa's most popular soap operas.
Gugulethu Zuma, 24, will play a young woman who returns to South Africa after living for five years in Britain, in the long-running Isidingo soap, the producers said in a statement.
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