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We have another icon headed our way - Roger Lucey. 28 November

Posted on Tue October 7, 2025.

HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Roger Lucey will be in song and story telling mode in the Belanti in wonderful opportunity to share in the journey of an extraordinary artist on Friday night the 28 November.

He survived a covert dirty tricks campaign against him from the security police that destroyed his music career. He survived the drug addiction and disaffection that followed. He survived a decade and a half as a TV cameraman in the wars of Africa and Eastern Europe. Roger Lucey then knew that he needed to go further to find peace of mind. With no previous experience he set out to build a house in the mountains of the Breede River Valley with a vague idea that this might lead to healing. This is the story of that house in the changing South Africa and the path that led Lucey from the darkness of his past into the light and back to his music.

Roger will be performing his solo show featuring stories from the book and songs inspired by the journey in the Belanti

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