Opinion / Columnist
Is Bosso the Black Mambazo of football?
16 Sep 2016 at 08:06hrs | Views
Joseph Shabalala discovered an isicathamiya group, The Highlanders, led by his hero Galiyane Hlatshwayo. Hlatshwayo was the man who encouraged Joseph to use his voice powerfully. Joseph formed his own group the same year, Ezimnyama ("The Black Ones").
A series of dreams Joseph had in his sleep in December 1964 was a major turning point in the formation of the group; when he saw how well his group did in the once-weekly isicathamiya competitions, he renamed them Ladysmith Black Mambazo, "Mambazo" meaning axe, referring to how the group chopped down the other choirs by winning almost every time.
Bosso's official name is Highlanders which is similar to the isicathamiya group that Joseph Shabalala discovered in 1960. Bosso is also called Ezimnyama ngenkani, and Shabala formed a group called Ezimnyama. What a co-incident.
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