The VoĆ«lvry movement in South Africa was a music movement of rock-punkish anti-apartheid music from the 1980's, sung in Afrikaans and labelled at the time as āBoerepunkā and 'Alternatiewe Afrikaanse Musiekbeweging' (Alternative Afrikaans Music Movement). āof . The term VoĆ«lvry meant "outcast" or "free as a bird".
This movement has been said to have started on April 4, 1989 in Johannesburg in a packed club. This marked the beginning of what some have called a rock and roll uprising. The VoĆ«lvry movement used music in the Afrikaans language to show pride. The movement focused on Afrikaner youth. The main goal of the movement was to get Afrikaner youth to see the changes that had to occur in the āauthoritarian, patriarchal cultureā. .
