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Lion king wimoweh 20193/23/2023 Solomon Linda was an uneducated Zulu tribesman and a gifted composer and performer of music. The publication of Malan’s article caused a considerable outcry in South Africa and set in motion the train of events described below. The interesting and stimulating legal challenge was supplemented, if not overshadowed, by a truly righteous cause. Meanwhile, the song had bestowed bounteous riches on those who had commandeered it. The upshot of the story was that despite the success of derivatives of his song MBUBE, Solomon Linda had died a pauper and his descendants had been doomed to live in abject poverty in Soweto. In his well-researched and revealing article Rian Malan told a sad story which smacked of the abuse of simple poor black people by music industry moguls in relentless pursuit of riches. The route map through the bewildering landscape turned out to be an article entitled “In the Jungle” written by the author and journalist Rian Malan and published in the edition of the magazine “Rolling Stone”, the authorative mouthpiece of the international entertainment industry. I ploughed through the mountain of paper and steadily a pattern and coherent story emerged. This will be done by means of a revision of “Stalking the Sleeping Lion” that takes account of subsequent events. This, to our mind, necessitates a retelling of the story in which the facts of the case are told as they are. The film, in effect, has awoken the Lion once again, this time in a jungle of the contemporary media, where the truth can, and does, easily become the prey. This has all been brought to a focus in an actuality movie called “The Lions Share” which was released on their network by Netflix in May 2019. Unfortunately, the bubble burst sometime after the settlement that concluded the case and the story turned somewhat sour. It was a classic rags to riches tale with a fairy tale ending where everyone lives happily ever after. It gave an account of the renowned court case before the Pretoria High Court involving the metamorphosis of a Zulu song called “Mbube” into one of the most famous and successful popular song ever, called “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, and the legal consequences that followed. The above paragraph is the opening paragraph of an article that I wrote and was published under the title “Stalking the Sleeping Lion” in De Rebus of July 2006. This appeared to be an interesting and stimulating challenge and perhaps the opportunity of a lifetime. With that they delivered a pile of documents standing the best part of a metre high and left me to peruse them. You should recommend any reasonable course of action which you can conceive and we are willing to finance it even if it means conducting litigation abroad.” This instruction came from representatives of Gallo (Africa) Limited, the South African record company. “Your mandate is to find a way, and to do everything possible, to enable the children of Solomon Linda, the composer of a song called MBUBE, which later evolved into the international hit song THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT, to derive some financial benefit from the considerable revenues generated by the popularity of THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT.
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