This week, my manager, Andre Le Roux, has given me a short task of finding information about the late Saxophonist and Jazz musician, Kippie ‘Morolong’ Moeketsi (1925-1983). I promised him I will look back into my second year Music in History and Society (MHS) notes. I know we have learnt a bit about Moeketsi from Prof Lara Allen in 2004, but I'm not sure I will be able to unearth the information from my old readings (too bad for an archivist isn't it?).
The manager also told me that they have been recieving extraordinary querries from members lately, and this is true because early during the week my supervisor, Noelene Kotze, asked if Kgomotso and I have come across 'Suikerbossie', a traditional Afrikaner song that has been sung by many artists in the Afrikaner genre. The two recent querries are the most sought after at the moment and we have a duty to unearth the compositions in the archive. So far, we have entered over 14 ooo light music records on the archive system and still, we have not yet come across the two, and it might take us a while to get the compositions.
About Kippie Moeketsi, I know I have come across compositions by Hugh Masekela, who played in the same band that he (Moeketsi) played, but traces of him as a co-composer were not available. I am certain we will come across his compositions but that might be too late because there is research going on, which needs information on South African composers, Kippie included. The fact that he is in demand keeps us on our toes to work faster in the hope that we'll come across his works and this are some of the challenges the archive is faced with.
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"Suikerbossie" and Kippie Moeketsi! Gee whizz, what diversity in the work you do!
I know "Suikerbossie". I remember lining up in the huge school hall at the primary school I went to. We had to do folk dancing, and "Suikerbossie" was definitely in there. It feels like a hundred years ago. Yet I still remember feeling how very risque the words "Suikerbos ek will you hê/Wat sou jou ma daarvan sê?" (Sugar I want you, what would your mother say about it?) were. And oh, the thrill of dancing with a boy!
I was about 7 years old of course!
And now to more important stuff. I have just read your comment about your interest in time management issues after Kgomotso's blog on the same subject. And since there are two of you who find (or have found) this to be an issue, I went to Google to see if I could at least find a template that you could use as a tool to plot your current activities. Something you could look at critically after a week of logging what you have been up.
And I did find the template. Or rather, templateS. So many that I decided I would hand the task right back to you, and ask you to please go and find one that you believe will work for you.
Then, here's a task for you and Kgomotso. Track your activities and the time each activity (leisure, TV, work, gym, travel - all of it) takes. Then have a look at each other's logs at the end of the week, and try to give each other critical feedback.
Please let me know if you accept the challenge, and keep me posted about how it works out...
(By the way, it was great to see you today at Nomusa's exhibition!)
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