Joseph Shabalala and Albert Mazibuko are the only founding members still singing with the radiant South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

In 1960, 10-year-old Mazibuko would walk eight miles to visit his friend Shabalala in the South African township of Ladysmith.

“When I got there, we didn’t have anything to talk about,” Mazibuko recalls. “We would just sit and look at each other and have nothing to say, although we liked each other a lot.”

Shabalala’s mother teased them about it: “Joseph, your friend is here,” she would tell her son. “What are you going to talk about today?”

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