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GeeSixFive: The woman who became a pop sensation at 65
When Olpha Selepe told her children she wanted to release her own pop song, they pleaded with her not to.
They didn't want to hurt her feelings, but it just wasn't what 65-year-old retired teachers did. Her siblings agreed, urging her to drop the idea. It would be embarrassing for the whole family, they said.
With other people's opinions fresh in her head, she knew there was only one option left.
To record the song in secret.
By the time her family found out what she'd done, the track was already a viral hit - and Selepe, now known across the country by her stage name GeeSixFive, was famous. The song was being shared all over social media, it topped South Africa's iTunes charts, and people across the country were holding her up as an example of it never being too late to achieve your dreams.
But on 7 December, just a few short weeks after the song's release, Selepe tested positive for Covid-19. Two days later, while self-isolating with family in Durban, she died.
Olpha Selepe had polio as a child. Because of the disease, she only had the use of one arm.
Growing up in Eshowe in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, her mother would tell her that she'
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"Only the onequarter chief" : conflict, tilt, and mostly authority wrench 20th hundred KwaZulu-Natal, Southward Africa
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