Sibonile Ngubane AKA King-Khathazamanyeamadoda Khanyile was spoted days leading towards ballot-casting,actively convening Ubaba Msholozi’s party of u Mkhonto We Sizwe(MK),men in a video ,giving them instructions to attract voters for the 5 months old party.
If not an ordinary volunteer,this means Sibonile ,a seasoned actor from KZN who famously gained a name of Khathaza from SABC 1 drama Uzalo in 2019 based on a dodgy character he was playing,has joined other local artists such as Limpopo’s Penny Penny and Zuluboy to boost the MK party.
Currently Ubaba’s party is snatching Tata Madiba’s party power in KZN by 45% as of Friday morning and causing a stir by creating it an embarrassment as the world from New York to London reports how ANC is projected to fall around 41% of votes from 57% it last received,as of Friday morning the Independent Electoral Commission(IEC) count showed that nationally MK removed DJ PRESIDENT JUJU’s EFF from the third position,in Mpumalanga it has removed DA from the same position while puting ANC below 50% but disappears in some provinces while it is cooking towards 1% in Penny Penny’s province,and again emerges in some provinces below 3% and kicking well in Gauteng below DJ PRESIDENT JUJU,also there sending the ANC packing.
Meanwhile a video has also been seen where Zola 7 was suggesting a praise for the MK party while a retired poet and singer Ntsiki Mazwai have been doing an online PR about Nxamalala’s positive impact as the first citizen of the country.
DJ Zinhle has issued a social media generated selfie video early this week,to “explain” herself,after she faced hostile voices over the past weekend,with residents of Witbank and Mzansi ,through social media,the Jozi based dance music DJ is accused of making insensitive remarks on unemployment.
“ I was just saying that in this country I feel like a lot of young people don’t have opportunities that’s what I meant by unemployable right and maybe my choice of words was wrong ”
Her accusers are saying that the late AKA’s baby mama used an unidentified podcast platform to say that Mzansi youth is ‘unemployable’ ,particularly those from Witbank where she was looking to open her boutique,there they charge,she claimed that she struggle to hire three people with ‘skills’ to sell earings.
But in a video,Zinhle appeared humble and endlessly asked for apology,especially to Witbank,which she says the residents habe already protested her presence there in words.
Those who came into support of her controversial remarks which are unlikely to disappear anytime soon in a country with the highest unemployment among the youth,such as DJ Shimza and Prince Kaybee,and Sizwe Dlomo who failed to sugarcoat her,were left alone with the cloud as the DJ ,who seemed sincere ,came to make the public apology.
Witbank is an economic city of Mpumalanga producing morethan 50% of electricity power supplied to the African continent,local socialites,celebs and influencers there includes the likes of Oscar Mbo,Zama,Musa,Yellow Papi,Hermain M,Shaun Keyz,the late Mshoza,Hugh Masekela and Prosper Mkwaiwa,DJ G-Force,Mr Salz,Grootman to mention some,and Somizi has declared it his hotspace these days recently with his venue on the same street where Zinhle was planning to open her boutique.
Being friends with powerful people like DJ PRESIDENT JUJU,Zinhle does not have any previous controversy especially one of this nature outside entertainment,beside personal life and accusations of around Pepe(original mix) which itself originate in that city of Witbank. Her first public gig after this saga will be in Durban tomorrow where Msholozi is rallying for UnMkhonto Wesizwe, according to Entertainment Guide:SA ,which is also originally published by a Witbank based powerful media house,SAMM Broadcasting.
After the wave of ex sweethearts Gcinile and Grooman’s sex video went viral on monday, dubbed ‘1 of 35’ on social media,late tuesday another one broke out dubbed part 2.
While on Monday JOZI NEWS was unable to get comments from any of the former couples about the circumstances surrounding the emergence of the video to the public and that if the previous screenshots were legitimate,given the prevalence of fake news nowdays and fake accounts especially to prominent people or those considered influential in nowday culture,at least JOZI NEWS can confirm that the second video dubbed part 2 making rounds,is an old video that was posted around 2020 during Malusi Gigaba and Norma Gigaba break-up,at the time,it was speculated that it was that sex video which finally caused Norma to walk away from that marriage,and a video of two people,female ontop with faces hidden from a side vicinity,in a bedroom ,ontop of a bed,with a woman screaming, ‘limnandi isende babe’ ,purported to be Malusi Gigaba being woman-on-topped by a side chick,whether that video itself despite who really did it is real or action,it remains unknown.
It must be said though that,a Valentine’s celebration photo of Grootman and Gcinile half photo in a dog-style position,is real which was posted consensual on both or any of the couples’ photo sharing social media accounts, downloaded by JOZI NEWS around 2021,where Gcinile is wearing red tops bending on a bed edge of a red-and-white rose decorated bedroom with candles.
Following the week of online screenshots of exchanges of tense text messages ,allegedly between local young FOREX lord known as Grootman who has since been the target of cops accusing him of fraud,finally a sex video of the once Instagram powerful couple is out ,circulating on social media.
According to a recently signed law by the first-citizen-of-the-country,an intentional posting of such videos or photos with out owner’s consent could lend the party being responsible to about two-year jail term or a R200k fine.But when such content identifies two parties it also becomes a dispute under copyright since the other party is also the rightful owner,though it doesn’t make it less of an offense,also the description of a nude is another dispute.
Leaking of nudes or sex videos involving celebs is not unheard of in Mzansi,recently after the law was signed in,Prince Kaybee’s then side-chick, DJ Hazel Mahazard,leaked the nudes of Prince Kaybee,though somehow the law is believed to curb some aspects of abusive relationships ,in the case of Prince Kaybee,no one said anything infact he was subjected to a further public harassment and secondary victimization,including by those calling themselves ‘GBV’ activists such as Ntsiki Mazwai,who made insensitive remarks ,so did the Woman For Change organization give Hazel a follow on Instagram.
Malusi Gigaba,was too,once a victim of a sex video leak,but he instead lost his post as a minister,and was subjected to online harassment including by some specific journalists on their Twitter timeline,with the name ‘Gigabyte’ ,in his case the leak was made by Cindy Makhathini,nothing was said about her as a perpetrator,a cartoonist Zapiro went as far as drawing a cartoon of that sex video as a humour despite his right to dignity.
The texts messages circulating last week,are potentially alleging that Gciniwe,the now ex girlfriend of Grootman and his baby mama,may have been in an abusive relationship perpetrated by Grootman.
In another text,it also shows that Grootman himself may have been in an abusive relationship perpetrated by Gcinile,in this instance a financial abuse,the current Domestic Violence laws also recently modified,identifies a financial abuse as a situation where one partner financially exploits the other party unjustly and for personal financial gain.Grootman claims in the text has this description,but what the punishment is,for this offence,the law becomes unclear,Grootman claims that he has been going the length of scamming people to sponsor their expensive lifestyle for his now ec who may have dumped him once the cops put him on radar.
The video circulating since over night,shows the two couple engaging in oral sex or the female parter offering the male a blowjob,which shows her face but not the one of the male due to how the recording device was placed,the setting is a romantic one perhaps in a hotel or luxury home,with expensive alcohol bottles such as Moet aside and roses,on couch,this is indeed typical lifestyle of the former couples,on another scenario the female is squirting ontop of an expensive chair while the male points his genitalia towards hers.
The texts purported to be from Grootman,did warn that a sextape may be leaked,now that the quality HD video is out,who did it,who will take a liability,and if the two former couple indeed acknowledge it is them in it,remains unaswered as attempts by JOZI NEWS to get hold of the two was unsuccessful this morning.
Abusive relationships are cause of concern locally,with many go unreported,from both males and females,and some resulting into homicide while some into suicide in men,due to the nature of how the stereotypes in the society has made it seem acceptable that men can’t be victims of domestic violence,and the notion of men being ‘providers’ .
In 2009 as house music was on a mainstream climax in Mzansi,a year or two before the CD era was phased by digital downloads leading somewhat to a downtrend in a local culture of compilation albums.In Middelburg,a town next to Witbank in Mpumalanga,a young producer was in the rise by the name of DJ Cuebur,who did his productions on his backroom in a township known as Mhluzi,it was the era of demos,when up coming producers released their music on CDs and circulated them across,these tracks would be unsigned some not even registered with no publishing rights,alternatively rendering the vulnerable to an official release or remix to the next established DJ or artist.Cuebur im Mhluzi was a well known local producer,one of the few and enjoyed support to locals,he made consecutive demos before a recognition in the last days of Soul Candi first round in 2011.
On the other side in Witbank,an economic city of Mpumalanga before Middelburg,between Pretoria and Jozi ,about 55 min or 30 min away,apart from the city knowing DJ G-Force and DJ Trevor as their liberation icons in the dance culture,around 2009 another DJ in his late 20s or early 30s was on the rise,as a local popular producer,who also produced consecutive house music demos in his backroom,in the Lynville section of Kwa-Guqa towship in Witbank.
Again in Jozi,a 15-min of fame SABC 1 dancing competition show known as Jika Majika was giving a rise to local female DJs,as the country was still celebrating Durban’s DJ C-ndo as ‘the first lady of house music’,DJ Zinhle was a lady amongst those spinning decks on the SABC 1 popular once or twice a week primetime show,and in 2009 perhaps two or one year later after the show came to an end,the second lady of house music made her way in the mainstream,her name was DJ Zinhle,through an album titled Feminine Touch in 2009 ,under Oskido’s Kalawa Jazzme Records,many of the tracks on that album can’t even be recognised today,but there was one track that launched Zinhle actually into a club culture brand,it was the first or second track titled Pepe(original mix) .
While the track was new to the country,it was never new to the townships of Witbank and Middelburg in Mpumalanga,maybe they knew and celebrated in raves during a demo album launch of DJ Sgubhu in his section of Lynville,in a streetbash style at Hectorway street,months before or a year before.
Same in Mhluzi towship where Cuebur comes from,the track was never new to that generation that used to watch Cuebur in nearest chillas parks playing on decks,he was a known followed producer in Middelburg town.
But the most fascinating question at the time was,who’s track is it actually, DJ Cuebur or DJ Sgubhu,both never came with straight forward answers but the track in Witbank,it would appear as DJ Sgubhu’s and in Middelburg DJ Cuebur’s.As it did appear on both of their demos,one fact is that DJ Sgubhu knew the irony behind the titel Pepe ‘s real spelling and pronunciation which had been altered to eliminate any possible explicit.
When the track was heard on local airwaves ,but accredited to DJ Zinhle who would turn into a super-star within months,it was not that much of a shock perhaps to these Mpumalanga communities because they knew the track months or a year before and their they were fascinated by the fact that it appeared of the young DJs demos,some argued that the one on DJ Sgubhu it was actually the remix of the one on Cuebur,this JOZI NEWS is still unable to verify today but one thing for sure then ,the track that launched DJ Zinhle’s career is the same one on DJ Cuebur’s demo.
This striked an interesting point later in 2023 when Cuebur who is since based in Jozi,would come to cry tears by writing on his personal social media account,without naming Oskido or Zinhle,the producer who mastered the Zakes Bantwini’s Osama(original mix),expressed that until today he doesn’t know how Pepe(original mix) was released on DJ Zinhle’s album.
The clear meaning was that he was never compensated nor informed about the track being dropped on DJ Zinhle’s album,on same post ,Cuebur said that he wasn’t yet emotionally ready to talk about the dispute surrounding the release of the song.
Currently the online communities are sharpening arguments and trading insults among each other since from this morning across the country,this time DJ Zinhle is accused of having directly insulted the unemployed youth from Witbank, claiming that they lack ‘skills’ to sell earings,that comes as it is reported that she was trying to open a branch of her eating boutique in a mall owned by billionaire Johann Rupert in Witbank.
The ongoing murder case involving the death of a hip hop super-star that shocked the nation last year February,will be back in a Durban court in August this year, according to country’s prosecutors on behalf of the government.
This followed a lengthy process of bail application by 5 men from KZN province who were arrested early this year in connection with the murder, initially it was thought that AKA was shot along with his bodyguard on the Friday night outside a Durban restaurant,but it later emerged it was his industry friend,a celebrity chef Tibz.
These people are five in total,aged from 29;30;35;36 and the youngest being a 21-year Siyanda Myeza. ‘ …the five were denied bail with the court saying it would be reckless and irresponsible to release the applicants out on bail ‘ .
At the time of his death,Lemons n lemonade a hip hop remix of an international House classic by Daft punk,was a current local hit waves on charts and on his plans for a full album Mass Country.
The bail application of these suspects catched the eye when the cops told the court that these suspects are linked to KZN contractual killing heatless murderers known as izinkabi who would kill anyone anywhere just for money,it is alleged that AKA’s head price may have caused close to R1-m ,each men had a payday of not more than R180k the following day, distributed via banking channels amongst each by one of the suspects pointed in court,how a 21 year old could turn into a murderer is an interesting story to be visited upon , their target was AKA but an astray bullet hit Tibz who was in a close vicinity during the incident,the cops are sure and at least a CCTV shows the gun was held against AKAs head it a hit&run style.
These men are accused of carrying heavy guns and ammunition which are all illegal in their reign of terror around KZN and maybe beyond,not only is AKA and Tibz families in tears about the actions of these people but many,the cops told the court.
‘ The state [NPA] added two further charges of money laundering ‘ now money laundering is another interesting party in these developing revelations,why because the investigating cop told the court that,while there’s a burning issue and speculation of who the mastermind may be,the money close to R1-m paid to these alleged murderers comes from Mfunda Gcaba,one of the Gcaba family brothers,have you watched The Wife on Showmax before,which is produced by Gugu Zuma, who tells the story of violence in the taxi industry from two rival taxi bloodline in Jozi originally from KZN,yes the Gcaba family are rumoured to be violence wedgers in the local taxi industry,it is said that they are by blood linked to Gugu Zuma’s father,the only one,Nxamalala Msholozi,to make sure that we bring you facts and not fiction,as we always do and will never get tired,this magazine did get reach to Msholozi via his spokesman,Mzwanele Manyi,we explained to him in lengthy details that Msholozi is not linked to any of the alleged illegal activities and scandals surrounding the Gcaba brothers,but rumours are that one or more are his nephews,as a trusted magazine we only need a clarity around that for future reporting, instead Manyi insulted JOZI NEWS and claimed that this magazine is ‘desperate’ to drag Baba Msholozi Nxamalala in the headlines involving AKA,AKA himself had a good relationship with uBaba Msholozi as he did pay a visit to his Nkandla homestead days before u Baba’s imprisonment without a trial in July 2021.
At the time, the Gcaba brothers name showed up again as owners of a taxi fleet and buses around KZN and Gauteng,and that they had an under-hand on the deadly riots that followed Msholozi’s short-lived jail-hand over,but it was Fikile Mbalula Mr Razz Mattazz himself,who published a purported media statement,with what looks to be a family emblem,the statement read that it was from the Gcaba brothers and they were denying allegations of an under-hand in the deadly riots which the Human Rights Commission reports that it had nothing to do with Baba Msholozi.
The Gcaba brothers have no online presence or contact listing, as opposed to what is expected to high business profiles doing business with the government and providing public transport to millions of commuters in the country,so questions such as where did Mr Razz Mattazz himself get the statement from,which in itself did not list any contact reference,are inevitable but answers remains a mystery, again this magazine did recently get in touch with Mandela’s party in Luthuli House,to try and understand the links of their secretary Mr Razzmatazz to the notorious Gcaba brothers,proved to be a mystery,a communication man for the ANC did clearly acknowledge our query but refused to give answers.
The star-sytem followers also watched in mindful,another turn of events the last week,when Mr Razzmatazz stormed into a poverty stricken community which is also dodge by a daylight violent crime where residents find themselves in a cross roads of flying bullets, Razzmatazz splashed with expensive cars, one of which is a G-Wagon,and promised the people some promises,in turn if they vote for Mandela’s party.That G-Wagon which is a luxury one causing millions of Rands,it turned out that it is bullet-proof,and it belongs to the late AKA’s bodyguard,not even AKA did ride in a bullet proof car even in a province where he was warned he will die,why did the bodyguard provide such for Razzmatazz it remains unknown,the bodyguard who told Johann Rupert’s eNCA that in suggestions,that AKA did know follow his protocol as he was facing threats,is also currently entangled in a fraud scandal involving university qualifications,but Gwede Mantashe,who battles the name of “Tiger-in-a-bed” ,a sex scandal where the married ANC heavyweight was having sex with a varsity young woman in exchange for money and gift,told reporters that those with concern over Razzmatazz ride in a luxury car that is bullet proof to a crime vulnerable community,they can go ride on “donkies”,donkies are not a mode of transport in Mzansi but are common in rural poor communities where the municipality fail to provide basic service delivery, normally there,these people “ride on donkies” to go fetch water in rivers,in some instances it is alleged that they drink water from the same rivers with the animals like donkies and cows
Other remaining suspects in the case are still held in Swaziland, waiting to be brought to Mzansi, countries like Swaziland and other neighbourers thought to be poor,respond with strong condemnation against criminal suspects,what led to these five being arrested finally after so many months after AKA’s death,is believed to be the arrest of those in Swaziland,the SAPS acted in hours to arrest those in Mzansi in order to avoid a public humiliation that another country is doing their job. On the 8th of August when the case returns in Durban,it is when clearity will be expected to be heard on the fate of those held in Swaziland as it can’t be imagined that the cases can be separately trialed.
Radio 947 afternoon host and actor Thando Thabethe,shows no concern about malicious claims by local notorious blogger Musa Khawula.
Few weeks back,Khawula used one of his social media handles known for exclusive about celebs,some at times are made with pri-mafacie evidence such as videos and photographs,but some may be just plain texts with unrelated pictures.
When it comes to Thando,the blogger made claims that the actor is maintaining a sex-for-favour with the owner of the Booth, ‘Ever wondered where Thando Thabethe’s Thabooty’s are manufactured?’
Thabooty’s are female underwear line or label by Thando Thabethe,Booth is one of high-class nightclubs popular with celebs here in Jozi,as he continues,without any evidence but pictures of Thando and Jaji,the club owner, ‘ Jaji Abalore bought Thando Thabethe her factory Redwood Manufacturing where Thabooty’s are manufactured in exchange for sexual favours and for the factory to be used for sexual favours ‘ .
Who have sexual affair with who exactly,where is the factory and the origination of the money being allegedly laundered including the evidence to prove all of this ,are questions that JOZI NEWS seeked to convey to Khawula,but his website does not have a contact page , numbers provided by Google maps ,seem to be not working as well.
The same morning of the 12th of April,this magazine did contact Thando Thabethe through her business,and asked for her comment,but there was no answer.Same with Jaji Abalore through her nightclub but we were blue ticked.
Musa on the first week of this month,again claimed that Thando Thabethe on the 12th or 11th of April,contacted him through her lawyers and summoned him to a meeting on the 4th of May,where he says that he was threatened to delete or reverse the claims he made, ‘all’s I wanna say again is t[T]hando [t]Thabethe baby if I disappear or anything happens to my family.You will answer ‘ .
Wrote the defiant blogger with the conclusion, ‘gossip girl’ . Thando Thabethe did not reply to our queries again after these claims.
Local radio station Metro FM’s music awards ceremony will again take place in Mpumalanga province just like last.
The station’s operator,the South African Broadcasting Corporation(SABC) announced who would be leading the stage as host of the night on the 27th this month at Mbombela stadium,in a statement on Tuesday.
Lootluv,who made her career out of the now ended Live music show on SABC 1 ,which made Bonang Matheba,had her career since facing uncertainty after leaving SABC but has since been resurrected through this year’s radio schedule season on the same Metro FM,is an announced host along her colleague and rapper PROVERB for MMAs .
Ekurhuleni’s club-record presenter and producer DJ Cleo joins fellow local dance music broadcast journalists bellwethers such as Zeal Dladla,euphonik,DJs At Work,Kid Fonque,Nutty Nys,DJ LaSoul,Lulo Cafe,Lamiez Holworthy,DJ Fresh,Roger Good,DJ Strat3gy,DJ Mlu and Oskido amongst other greatest that the local star-system prides itself with for flying the flag-high on airwaves in keeping the dance culture alive and attracting especially house music communities to the mainstream platforms.
Talks that the serial viral-gone hits producer and South African Music Awards digital downloads prize clean-sweeping goliath will be on the local airwaves during this year’s radio season,started making rounds the past week,amid a radio-career-resurrection of his fellow Tembisan also one of his early-musical career stage colleague,DJ Sbu who now host a morning show on the SABC’s Radio 2000.
The name of the show, Eskhaleni Party did not come as a surprise to staunch followers of local club culture in general,given DJ Cleo’s undisputed track-record as a record executive at his independent Wheel Of Steel productions,which takes credit for breakthrough talents like Mzekezeke,Brickz,Kabelo,DJ What What to mention few.
No doubts the spirit of excitement was not unquestionable since,the only thing that the marketing graduate did was to play his cards rights on keeping all of us guessing on features of the anticipated show and perhaps to trigger more speculations within the club culture communities,on the issue of genres the show would represent,maybe an exclusive to certain genres or sub-genres,well we all had to find it out by sticking to Radio 2000 last night 10 PM to make sure we do not miss every seconds of it as this was history in making and a further sign that SABC is delivering on its mandate to cater for every communities in the raibow nation society.
From Thursday,this magazine had to learn the serial-awards nominee and winner was in-and-out preparing himself at SABC offices near Auckland-park here in Gauteng,this is after JOZI NEWS kept on missing the opportunity to interview the Eskhaleni series albums producer,but with a supportive team including his manager around him,she made it a case that even if it was a last-minute bid from us,she makes it happen that the man-of-the-moment gets back to us ,of which he did by thursday midnight, “…the whole thing is still new to me ” ,said the exhausted 44-year while reaching back to us via SAMM Broadcasting earlier made query.
As the awaited moment finally hit friday evening,DJ Cleo was in escort of Kabelo Mabalane who did some Kwaito unplugged sessions for about 30 min,during an interview,it was clear that the DJ has a full support from those who knew him from the scratch,as Mabalane would occasionally be heard backing-up the voice of the first time presenter with his rap-style rhythms while passing a message of encouragement to his former producer.
Eskhaleni Party show last night also dished-out an opportunity to understand few things in few seconds,as Kabelo Mabalane left,Cleo announced that a media personality Pearl Thusi would be dropping a ‘mix’ ;earlier on Friday JOZI NEWS was in contact with Pearl Thusi,for an unrelated exclusive feature regarding her new step to be a DJ,against the back-drop of prevailing views from industry figures and tabloid opinionists,around “stripper DJs,untalented DJs,DJs-for-being famous” cloud that ignites a serious debate and controversy currently on the dance floors,but unfortunately it was not immediately clear from her management that she’s willing to share her views around this,though they were still to be informed about the intention of the feature before a dramatic vague default response from the actor’s manager.But otherwise DJ Cleo raise in some little doses the topic in a mini interview to her that followed after an about 20 min live-set,the response from Pearl was unpredictable,with ease and brief but not uncommon,she remarks that she bought DJ equipment long time ago from well known DJs but ‘time’ has not been on her side all these years as she kept on missing the moment to practically examine her skills;it was her greeting line to listeners however that may have given a wrong impression by desire or design,because in her words she could be heard saying something like ‘securing a bag’ in 2024.
Her other side as a supportive friend came-out in plain during the show,as it was the first time for DJ Cleo on-air, also Pearl’s first time to play live-on–air,something they both jokingly said it was an “initiation…” moment for her,she backed Cleo during his presenting in a clear sign of encouragement for a fellow industry figure who’s having it for the first time,also while congratulating him live,this was one of the rare things to be seen in the industry where another celeb’s new-success-step is met with warm hands and close support from fellows with an experience in the similar field,the gifted and sophisticated talker could also be heard happily welcoming callers and kept the session smooth thereafter somehow meeting the man-of-the-moment half way as he tried to joke about the first time challenges as a new presenter,telling how he almost fell from the chair in the studio and the ‘machines’ that proved to be perhaps a bit sophisticated in due course,Thusi picked it quickly,and figuratively told the DJ and listeners that it was infact people at homes who face the possibility of tripping down the floor due to the heat exacerbated by Eskhaleni Party vibes in their ears.
Now burying speculations that have been around,it is now clear that the DJ who is also loved for his unique bassline and kick-drum ,hosts a dance music style show,not an exclusive genre or sub-genre beat.This may mean now that almost everyone will be accommodated to star in the friday show,take for example the first first guest Kabelo Mr Bhuka love,he is a retired Kwaito performing artist,and Pearl,who let herself be heard as a cross-over DJ not a sub-genre specialist,so further gates have now being opened for up coming DJs through submitted segues,then live-set-drops perhaps mostly from industry-knowns,and performances from any dance music style genres such as Amapiano and Kwaito,so-called 3-step alike.
The irony of the whole DJ Cleo’s new career step success perhaps is that,to those who started to know cooked celeb beef for the first time with Cassper Nyovest and the late AKA,well perhaps arguably it was just an art of mimicry,the genuine one is that drama that always surrounded DJ Cleo before keeping a low-profile with post academic studies and soccer at Wits-university,so this show means morethan a lot,that infact it marks his formal come-back in the entertainment industry ever since the fall of CD era around 2011 which ,like with the case of many local dance music DJs,meant a disruption to his consecutive release of Eskhaleni album series,until he was spotted in recent month playing out in Mpumalanga with a new facial image;so a genuine beef,if it was not cooked as sometimes many previously speculated,it was a dramatic dust that always garnered public obsessive attention and interest around DJ Cleo and Arthur Mafokate in 2007,a seasoned Kwaito record executive,many can never forget that the two producers,released two tracks that were almost identical by lyrical content and instruments to composure,it is still untold even today how can such a thing even be possible,so much a co-incident that it falls to people who were beefing up on one another in the public domain,separated by a very thin layer of difference,that,Arthur’s was a Kwaito version and Cleo’s a house version,they both pointed fingers at each other as Cleo’s threatened to sweep a song-of-the-year tittle in the summer season of 2007 due to the track ‘Sisi ngi hamba nawe(original mix)’ chart performance. But if genuinely the issue about the songs was a pure co-incidence,it is then a hope that a lotto jackpot is also always possible because somewhere around the world the same thing happened,to a then young Swedish unknown DJ trying out a luck in the industry; the late Avicii and Leona Lewis,in the early 2010s,this edged them ontop of a serious spat,with the media-shy Avicii even threatened to be sued by the world’s star A-lister,but months later Avicii himself became a world’s first celebrity DJ,surpassing Lewis even with networth and deals not through the drama around the song though as Leona saw it.The difference in the tracks was the same as what we had and heard here at home with DJ Cleo and Arthur,Avicii’s was a club version and Leona Lewis’ was a Top-40 style version.
In conclusion,what unique aspects the Eskhaleni Party show offers,drawn from it’s first airing last night,is that,it is themed by Radio 2000’s play-list style of old school classics,it is a dance music show with live guest appearances ,unlike with many previous and current dance music journalism shows in the country,latest project features is something unlikely here but such records may be heard during segues from up-coming DJs,also one could expert to have some interesting missed-out historical facts and lessons about where the dance culture started in Mzansi, something that most shows failed to cover over the years and put into threat the genuine knowledge about the origins of genres such as house music locally.
A young aspiring local radio presenter and social media entertainer from KZN province, Penny Ntuli has got herself a new gig days after parting ways with Durban based Y FM sister-station Gagasi FM ,which sparked debate around radio gig contracts .
But now,Penny is a morning drive presenter for a small Soweto community radio sation that cooked bellwethers such as the late DJ Khabzella,before he graduated to Y FM in 1999.
A live video by JOZI FM was posted on social media on Tuesday,with the station officially welcoming her,including a poster adding her to the official presenter-line up was circulating through the station’s social media accounts by Tuesday afternoon.The station’s audience is adult,smaller in numbers compared to Gagasi as well as in revenues and is not that much popular among the vibrant youth here in Jozi,compared to other local-audience based commercials such as Kasi FM and 947.
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