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Inside Whitney Houston’s ‘best show’ at landmark South Africa concert 30 years ago: She was ‘hysterically funny’ and ‘confident’
Whitney Houston.So if there was going to be one singer on earth to capture a historic moment in time, it was going to be the “I Will Always Love You” diva.And so Houston was the first major Western artist to perform in a post-apartheid South Africa after Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994, with three shows in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town.But while the Johannesburg show on Nov. 12, 1994 was the one aired by HBO, the Nov. 8 Durban date is now showcased in “The Concert for a New South Africa [Durban],” a film that will be playing in select theaters on Oct.