SABC1 Mzansi Fo Sho has joined forces with a group of creative hip hop artists in the quest to rekindle and celebrate the spirit of the youth of 1976. The campaign to drive this process is dubbed – “All I Can Be.”
This Youth Month Campaign will kick off on Friday 15 June 2012 and will translate into 3 main elements: compiling the song, the cutting of the On-Air promos and the production of a music video.
The collective artists dubbed “June 16 All Stars” consists of the cream of Mzansi’s hip hop artists the likes of Amu, Pro, Mr Selwyn, Driemanskap, Nthabiseng, Kabomo, Flabba, TP, and Khanyi & Primus will collaborate to produce and record the song designed to push Mzansi’s youth to greater heights and to generate a spirit of hope in them. The song is titled “All I Can Be”
The shooting of a video, directed by David Phume, will be in keeping with the theme of the 76 Uprisings. It will feature hip hop artists in a Soweto school nearby Vilakazi Street where it all began.
The slogan to drive the innovative youth campaign is; “I Rap to the Heartbeat of those Who Spoke (up) before Me,” and is meant to inspire and encourage the modern day youth to face their challenges head-on with the view to overcoming them – in the spirit of the youth of 1976.
“The commemoration of June 16 has followed a more or less similar pattern over the years and the majority of our youth were finding it increasingly hard to connect,” says Dichaba Phalatse – Portfolio Marketing Manager responsible for Entertainment. “We realized that the youth today are exposed to a different set of challenges and we needed to come up with a creative concept to capture the Spirit of 76 and transport it into 2012 to galvanize and inspire the youth of today.”
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