10.25375/uct.7658240.v1 Engela Britz Engela Britz Rieldans and Rain-Making University of Cape Town 2019 rieldans rain bushmanland indigenous knowledge oral history karoo Songs in the dust riel music Musicology and Ethnomusicology 2019-03-13 11:59:33 Media https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/articles/media/Rieldans_and_Rain-Making/7658240 <div><div>This is an interview extract from a focus-group interview with Gert van Zyl, Katrina van Zyl & Klaas van Zyl. In the interview Katrina van Zyl links <i>riel </i>performances to rain-making in the Bushmanland. She explains that the the <i>riel</i> is actually an eight-day <i>riel</i>, that’s how the old people did it. When they played and danced for eight days, after that eight-day dance, it rained. So, the <i>riel</i> is actually a rain <i>riel</i> because it was their expectation that it would rain afterwards. That is what they believed that the rain would fall after the eight-day dance. The interview was recorded by Engela Britz on January 20, 2018, in Brandvlei, Northern Cape, South Africa.This interview extract accompanies Engela Britz's (2019) minor dissertation entitled "Songs in the Dust: <i>Riel </i>Music in the Northern and Western Cape, South Africa. An Afrikaans translation of the interview is recorded below:<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><p><i>Die riel is eintlik ‘n agt-dae riel, het die grootmense hom gevat, want as hulle nou daai agt dae gespeel het en hulle’t gedans, my suster, na daai agt-dae dans, dan reën dit. So, die riel is eintlik ‘n reën riel want dit het eintlik, daarna, dit was eintlik ‘n verwagting van hulle af. Dit is eintlik hoe hulle geglo het – die reën sal val na die agt-dae dans. </i></p><p><i><br></i></p> <p> </p> <p><br></p></div>