Sho Madjozi’s latest mixtape honours her Xitsonga roots – and Thomas Chauke approves
25 years into our democracy, South Africans are using similar tests on Africans.
The singer has brought Xitsonga pop to the fore, but she draws from a long line of celebrated artists
"Sho Madjozi is alive to the marginal condition of Venda and Shangaan languages in the Zulu-Xhosa-dominated Afro-pop culture in Mzansi."
Almost all teaching in Mozambique is in Portuguese but the majority of Mozambicans speak one of more than 40 local languages
It feels like Xitsonga is under a double-pronged attack: It is marginalised even though it is recognised as an official language in our Constitution.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that if a man wants to take more wives under Xitsonga custom, he must first get consent from his existing wife.