Johannesburg - President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the eulogy at the funeral of the music great, Joseph Shabalala.
Shabalala’s grandchildren and colleagues from the Mambazo family and those from the church, filled the church at various times, singing and dancing traditionally to legendary Black Mambazo songs of yesteryear. Ramaphosa said Shabalala understood the conditions men, women and children were denied. He moved to Durban from Ladysmith as a teenager to work in a factory before founding the legendary group.
“I congratulated him and Mambazo for having achieved what few musical groups either here or abroad have managed to accomplish, and that is to remain together despite such a great passage of time. “This community of Mnambithi, like many others in our country, is experiencing problems related to service delivery, and, in particular, water shortages. We must work together to resolve these challenges.
In bidding farewell to Shabalala, Ramaphosa borrowed from the words of poet Keorapetse Kgositsile and said the musician would ‘forever live in us’.
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