page_title: Lovelace Watkins
section_title: South Africa
hierarchical_section_title: Lovelace Watkins / Biography / South Africa
caption_attribution_description: English: Lovelace Watkins performing for newly installed government at Presidential Palace in Harare, Zimbabwe.
context_page_description: Lovelace Watkins was an American, Las Vegas-based singer and performer, who achieved prominence in America as well as in Europe and Australia.
context_section_description: In apartheid South Africa, Watkins did better than Sidney Poitier who had to stay  on a farm out of town due to lack of accommodation for black people. Watkins was the guest of honor at a woman banquet. He was pictured in The Sunday Express dancing with a white woman, which wasn't good for the hotel where it was taken as it nearly lost its license.
caption: 1980-Zimbabwe-New Government
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