Miriam Makeba, in New York, experiences a moment that would have been impossible in her home country. Makeba lived in exile in New York from 1960 after the South African government revoked her passport. On 16 July 1963, she addressed the United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid. “My country has been turned by the Verwoerd Government into a huge prison,” she said. “The time has come for the whole of humanity to shout ‘halt’ and to act with firmness to stop these crazy rulers from dragging our country into a horrifying disaster.” In total she addressed the UN about the horrors of apartheid four times – twice in the 1960s, and twice more after the Soweto Uprising in 1976.