South Africa’s celebrated musician Patricia Majalisa, yesterday condemned the ongoing xenophobia in her motherland, while a good number of SA musicians who benefited from Zimbabwe’s musical fan base kept it under their carpets.
Majalisa told this journalist from her Cape town base that she was deeply hurt by the situation that has since derailed her plans to hold shows in her second home Zimbabwe, where she command respect from millions of her fans who have been attending her shows and buying her music for more than three decades now.
“I cannot come to Zimbabwe at the present moment Chris; can’t you see what is happening? Are you watching news? I don’t want to comment I’m very angry with the whole people involved in the acts of violence,” she said.
While some of the SA musicians are silent about the situation, several Zimbabwean musicians have been calling for their voices, on the situation to take to the streets and lobby for peace.
Zimbabwe’s Queen of dance Sandra Ndebele also challenged the SA musicians to find ways of spreading the message of peace and also to put their shows to halt, as Zimbabweans are morning the deaths of their beloved ones who perished in the xenophobic attacks.
Jahprayer, Trevor Dongo, Vengai vekann Kanhema and Filda also voiced their concern on the quietness of the SA musicians.
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S. Africans will look out for themselves. They will come and have shows and take your money. They have helped to turn this country, our country into a huge supermarket for their products, by insisting all was well even when companies were closing at the fastest pace ever and capital flight was the order of the day. This was despite the world insisting some thing had to be done to correct the downward spiral of the once fledgling economy. And today, because all the employment opportunities have died down up the Limpopo, and we decide to share the goodies with our brothers down south, we are rewarded with winding up in pine boxes. So much for Ubuntu.
S. Africans will look out for themselves. They will come and have shows and take your money. They have helped to turn this country, our country into a huge supermarket for their products, by insisting all was well even when companies were closing at the fastest pace ever and capital flight was the order of the day. This was despite the world insisting some thing had to be done to correct the downward spiral of the once fledgling economy. And today, because all the employment opportunities have died down up the Limpopo, and we decide to share the goodies with our brothers down south, we are rewarded with winding up in pine boxes. So much for Ubuntu.