Ethekwini is commended for fostering up-and-coming talent at the Impucuzeko Maskandi Festival.

Ethekwini is commended for fostering up-and-coming talent at the Impucuzeko Maskandi Festival

The 11th edition of the Impucuzeko Maskandi Festival had once more placing a strong emphasis on fostering social harmony and giving up-and-coming Maskandi artists a chance to acquire recognition by performing alongside well-known musical groups. Moses Mabhida’s People’s Park hosted the music festival on August 18, for which eThekwini Municipality has received praise for its achievements. This was covered by the City’s three-year agreement with the festival organizers to host the event. Over fifty businesses had the chance to increase their sales at the event, and over 25,000 revelers from throughout the nation flocked to the city’s shores for the musical festival. The eThekwini municipality and the festival’s organizers have a deal for three years in place. Ethekwini is commended for fostering up-and-coming talent at the Impucuzeko Maskandi Festival.

Gugu Sisilana, a representative for the EThekwini Municipality, stated that the City will keep helping up-and-coming artists and small enterprises by giving them monetary assistance and offering them advantageous business prospects.
Being able to stage another outstanding festival makes us very happy. The festival, which is now known as the World Cup of Maskandi music, offered more than 50 businesses a chance to trade in addition to its performing arts focus, Sisilana added.

Amongst the many people that greeted the stage included Gatsheni, Stabhilithi, Mzukulu, Khuzani, Sminoff, Ntencane, Amageza Amahle, Mlabalaba, Sdoni, and Sgwebo sentambo. An ensemble of gratitude was sung by Ntethelelo “Ghanda-Ghanda” Buthelezi, who is the leader of the fifteen-member Empangeni girl group Omelisizwe, for the chance that the City and event organizers had given members.