A musical drama shot in black-and-white to lend an air of gritty realism, Africa Shakes follows British rock group, The Couriers, on a concert tour of South Africa. The band’s members, Bill Kimber, Dick Laws, Peter Fairweather and Alan Turner, are mobbed wherever they go and their concerts are sell-outs, even when they are double booked one night.

They perform with a young black kwêla band in a township, a classy jazz outfit in a kraal, in a dance studio where they serenade one of their members and his new love, and alongside a traditional black group in an evocative African setting where indigenous dancing suddenly turns into one big rock gig. So fantastical is the reality that in between gigs and recordings, members experience hallucinations of traditional healers chasing them through rough veld to a rocky outcrop where young maidens perform the Cheetah Dance while real-life cheetahs look on.