A film by François Verster
South Africa 2002

It will take anyone in the world no more than a few bars to recognise this song: 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', also sung as 'Wimoweh'. It has hit number one in various guises and various languages many times over the past four decades. Everyone in the world knows it – yet few are aware that it was actually written by an illiterate Zulu shepherd boy who barely saw a cent.

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