Letter to Conte Mhlanga By Gary Thwala Jackson|May I greet and honour you as the Godfather of arts in Zimbabwe. I hope you and your family are in good health noma nje kuvunguza umoya womqando okungathelela abantu umvimbano lengubhane.

You may wonder who I am but let me introduce myself before I dive into a message I would like to convey to you. Ngizalwa eGwanda, Matshetsheni lijaha lakoThwala lentombi yakoNcube kodwa nje seyasitshiya. Ngilizibulo khehla kanti ukhona umzukulu egumeni yena ngamethesa ibizo elithi Travis Nhlanhla Thwala. Ngelanywa yintombazane uNomaswazi Sicelo Thwala besekuyimuli yangakithi nje leyo.

I penned this letter after I read with disbelief from so many publications what you “claimed” about the Legend uBaba uLovemore Magee Majaivana. May I say I was young when I came to know and listen to his very popular music of which all of his songs are still a hit with Zimbabweans from all walks of life and as a matter of fact I play his music on social media and not even a single time will I do a show without his songs being requested. For you mntomdala to claim if the Legend comes he will not even fill McDonald Wall is not true. Angitsho ukuthi lilamanga Baba uMhlanga kodwa ngithi elikukhulumileyo akusilo qiniso, that was far fetched. We may agree the Legend did have not that much support but we know exactly the circumstances he operated under and at that point in time his followers including myself did not have the mentality we now have hence the demand for his comeback to perfoming.

Kungizwise ubuhlungu when you even advised that he does not come back toEmagumeni, kusani lokhu? Sokunguwe oxotsha abantu ekhaya yini because that is where inkaba yakhe ekhona and his fans miss him but a man of your stature have the guts to say such reckless ill thought statements. Baba uMhlanga it is very important as an influential arts guru that you mind what you say about fellow artists. We understand you might have had an intention to warn/alert him on the situation on the ground but you seem to have gone too far. It is even embarrassing for you to claim people waited until after Mapfumo performed in Zimbabwe before they suggested Magee comes. You choose to worship Mukanya by means of talking down on us kodwa khehla! Have you taken a shower in the same waters Enos Nkala did? For your own info people have always tried to get him to perform in the diaspora and back home many times. A fellow artist that you may be familiar with Madlela Skhobokhobo Power even recorded a video in an effort to get Magee to heed the call and go back on stage and wow his fans. A lot of promoters have publicly made a call to try and convince him to perform unfortunately he has turned down their pleas.

We know for a fact usukhulile sibili kunganjani uzibe kancane ukukhuluma ngezinye izinto kumbe ubuze ungakawuvuli. I am a hardcore fan of yourself and Magee as such I feel obliged to respond for okungasiloqiniso okukhulumileyo kodwa akusomanga ngoba abadala vele akutshiwo ukuthi balamanga noma bekhulume okungamanga. Aluhlaza tshoko! ……….ngitsho amahlamvu ezihlahla khehla!*