South Africa's Zakes Bantwini to headline Jacaranda Festival
South African music star Zakes Bantwini is one of the headliners at this year’s Stanbic Bank Jacaranda Music Festival this Saturday.
The Osama hitmaker will perform on the second day of the festival alongside Bongo Maffin, Jah Prayzah, Gwevendzi, Mwenje Mathole, Solution GC, Feli Nandi, African Strom and Mary Anibal.
Zakes whose real name is Zakhele Madida is a record producer and businessman. Born from KwaMashu F-section, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
He has worked with fellow musician Black Coffee, with whom he collaborated on the song Juju.
Zakes dropped the club banger Osama with Kasango and the song peaked number one on Radio Monitor Charts and spent 10 weeks on it.
Zakes performed two of his hits Osama and Imali at the recently held South Africa Music Awards 2022.
Also lined up to perform are DJ Zinhle, Shaback the Band, Fusion 5 Mangwiro, Anita Jaxson, Morda, Enz Ishall, King Her and Chucknosis Monster DJ.
The festival closes on 9 October with Zonke and DJ Fresh as well as Janet Manyowa, Prudence Katomen-Mbofana, Victor Kunonga, DJ Chiweddar and Djembe Monks among others.
Stakes high as South Africa’s Zakes Bantwini headline Jacaranda Festival
Organisers of Stanbic Bank Jacaranda Music Festival hoped to deliver the best of entertainment throughout the fiesta.
“As we roll back into normalcy from the pandemic we found it easier to look within the region for acts that would complement well the local acts.
“The festival is growing with each year so we look forward to reaching out to the rest of Africa and beyond,” Walter Wanyanya said.
“We are so excited to have our title sponsor Stanbic Bank and the anchor partners Cimas, TDW, Coca Cola and Nyaradzo SEAL responding to calls to support the creative economy of Zimbabwe.
“This is how creatives and business can converge for the bigger picture that will see more and more events benefiting from partnerships of this nature.”
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