These types of dances including
Toyi-Toyi were ways of directly incorporating dance, which was part of the lifeblood in traditional South African life into the anti-apartheid movement.
They will just dance that
toyi-toyi dance of theirs and call you a racist [...] Us white people no longer have a hope in this country [...] They've got the power now and there's nothing we can do." (169)
Antes de que pueda saludar, comienza el
toyi-toyi (27), con una cancion de bienvenida para iniciar lo que seria un dialogo de amigas (MATEBENI, 2015, entrevista), no por ello desprovisto de tensiones generacionales (NYUMBEKA, 2014) (28).
The film follows three high-profile Sonke activists--Mbuyiselo Botha, Patrick Godana, and Dean Peacock--and a small team of Sonke's younger men as they train, discuss, debate, listen, lecture, laugh, march, sing, inspire, explain, worry, plan, pray,
toyi-toyi, criticize, coax, question, organize, and wrestle with South African reality and with one another over a period of two years.
The central role that the
toyi-toyi dance played in South African political demonstrations against apartheid shows that sometimes movement and sound can be the most eloquent media available.
Toyi-toyi, on the other hand, is the black South African dance which became synonymous with the anti-apartheid struggle.
In South Africa, people of all races gathered at Mandela's home, laying wreaths, singing freedom songs, whispering prayers and performing the shuffling
toyi-toyi dance in his honor.
And vindicated Melanie vowed to continue with her role fighting injustice and "
toyi-toyi" - a South African term meaning to rage against government policies.
In Zimbabwe after 2000, politically related violence has apparently been preceded by the kongonya (1) dance, which is then elasticised into the jogging "
toyi-toyi" (2) war dance punctuated by revolutionary-turned-ritualistic songs calling for the re-education of perceived opponents.
It is
toyi-toyi. (35) In video footage of the funerals for the Craddock 4 and the Gugulethu 7, one sees thousands of people chanting and singing and dancing
toyi-toyi through the streets.
The
toyi-toyi song (or chant) with its militant style of singing and dancing was a totally new kind of song.