Guests can take a stroll down memory lane with throwback hits from Brenda Fassie, Sonja Heroldt, Miriam Makeba, Joy, Vicky Sampson, Judith Sephuma, Lionel Petersen, Richard Jon Smith, Zayn Adam, Taliep Petersen, Marc Alex, Hugh Masikela and Mango Groove.
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– Thoko Thomo aka “Shukuma Thoko,”
A Common Hunger to Sing
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Thokozile Elizabeth Ndlozi has been silent for too long. But like her 1950s namesake Thoko Thomo, the speedball inferno from George Goch known for her high-octave package – she sang, acted, danced, pouted, and teased audiences and fellow collaborators with peerless brio – before being effectively “disappeared” from public memory prior to her actual death in 1995, Thoko Ndlozi, who died on 14 January at 74, just won’t die.
Not dying – as opposed to being dead and famous, or alive and unseen, unfelt, unheard and unrecognised – is a remarkable feat on its own.