The album sold extremely well, breaking national sales records and maintaining a high rank in the radio charts for a year.

[1] Although the material won multiple awards from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, including "Best Album", the SABC censored the music video for the song "Hellfire", which had an anti-apartheid message.

The band made music videos for four of the singles: "Hellfire", "Dance Some More", "Special Star", and the rerecorded version of "Move Up".

"Special Star" was co-written by Kevin Botha, Mango bandleader John Leyden, and bandmembers Siphu Bhengu, Alan Lazar, and Mduduzi Magwaza.

It was directed by a young South African man named Nic Hofmeyr, who had worked in London for three years as a camera operator for music video shoots.

[2][3] When he returned to South Africa in 1987 to witness the end of apartheid, he started directing music videos—including the video for Bright Blue's "Weeping"—while aspiring to become a documentary filmmaker.

[5][6] On 20 April 1992, Mango Groove performed "Special Star" in Johannesburg for the simulcast of the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

The main event was at Wembley Stadium in London, where Mango's performance appeared (live, via satellite) on a large projection screen.

[9] The music video for "Hellfire" concerns the Group Areas Act, a racial segregation measure enacted by the apartheid government.

An elderly black man reads a newspaper article about the backlash against the Group Areas Act; he then spots a clipping about kwela musician Spokes Mashiyane.

A newspaper photo of a street scene transitions into a sepiatone flashback: Outside a Sophiatown nightclub called The Land Lady, the words "No passes" are painted on the wall.

At the end of the video, a caption explains that Sophiatown (a venerable black neighbourhood and cultural hotspot just outside of Johannesburg) was demolished in 1954 to allow for the construction of a white suburb called Triomf (the Afrikaans word for triumph).

In the video, lead singer Claire Johnston sits at a bar as the Mango Groove brass section plays.

[19] For the 30th anniversary of the release of Mango Groove, the band performed live shows on 8 and 9 March 2019 at the Teatro at Montecasino, a theatre in Johannesburg.