Bakwethu one of the greatest will be in Toronto......
kuyoze kuvalwe izikhiye zilahleke ...... who is joining me ....

A legend indeed! For true Masekela fans, I recommend his latest offering "Live at the Market Theatre" featuring the cream of SA musicians. Hugh Masekela: Live at the Market Theatre

Bra Hugh is working on a new album,to be released at the end of March, together with DVD of this Live concert. Get the double cd in the meantime uzizwele ubunandi obulapho!

Ibambe, ungay'yeki. Zabalaza!

Limnanzelele uHugh ngoba ubulawa yi xenophobia. Recently in the US, he intimated calling immigration officers on a crowd of Zimbabweans who were cheering him up on stage. The guy was not even on an RSA stage but in the heart of the US. Can you imagine him ememezela from the stage ukuthi it's most likely ukuthi laba abantu abaklabalalayo kabala maphepha !! Be careful, lingamjabuleli kakhulu.

Bafowethu.

Khazi, angeke ayekele u Huuuuuuu Masekela ukuba le Xenophobia. Abathwalise nzima ama Zimbwabenzi kwelakibo. Kuthiwa e New York wathi uyabingelela ngesintu, THOSE CHEARING HIM ***************. Kwamkhumbuza kibo e RSA wazonda waze wakhohlwa ukuthi ama Amerika akusiwo maphoyisa akibo. hk hk hk hk.

On a lighter NOTE, If Huuuuu Masekela was the president of South Afrika, I would love to meet him. Nxa kungama ZImbwabenzi alwa lawo, UYISITHUBULO.

Li Zwangendaba.

Kodwa phela kaqathanisi Khazi ukuthi laba abaklabalalayo ngabangaphi hk hk Uyahwatsha nje inhlamba zakhe! Mhlawumbe yisikokiyana esiyabe simyalula umunt'omdala, singazi ngani. Kodwa it is not right for a man of his stature ukuba esenza those negative political statements on stage. In the same breath ububula and laments nge strife se Darfur, abuye njalo abe ngobizela abanye amapholisa eImmigration hk hk hk Kazizwisisi hayi agh!!

Mabila, uBra Hugh into ethiwa ngum 'Zimbabwe' vele kayithandi. Ngoba why? Khumbula ukuthi iZimbagwe yilo lodwa izwe elam'hlukumeza kabi ubra Hugh. Ngo 1986, ezama kungena eZimbagwe, abe CIO bam'bopha uHugh, besithi utholakele ephethe imbanje kwi suitcase.
Bam' interogetha kabi baqeda bamxotsha njenge nja eZimbabgwe.Yikho phela waze wa rekhoda i classic album yakhe ngo 1986, eyi rekhoda kwi mobile studio e Botswana ngemva koku bhonjwa kwendlu ayehlala kuyo by [mgabe]/SA Apartheid agents.

So, uyabona-ke, ubra Hugh uyazonda umZimbabwe into nje usuka esigoqela sonke lapho, kasazi lutho ngathi kwa Mthwakazi ngoba phela kasizwakali as a nation - sisuka siyekele ama shona ethengisa izwe as a shona-cultural state(and why not, angithi bayasi 'tonka') Ngiyakhumbula uJoseph Tshabalala wamaMbazo Amnyama emangala ngikhuluma naye ngesintu ngisithi ngivela ko Bulawayo - wabuza wathi kanti bakhona abakibo khonangale, emangele shuwa.

Did you know ukuthi SA Ndebeles have now overtaken us, ngokwaziwa mhlaba wonke jikelele? Speak of Ndebeles and most people will think of SA Ndebeles first and last. What does that tell you?

Kunjalo-nje, Ibambe, ungay'yeki. Zabalaza!

Hugh has accurately coined the problem elizweni lika [mgabe].
I am sure you have listened to the song "Everything must change" which is presently banned in Zimbabwe.

Funda lapha:
http://www.zimdaily.com/news/117/ARTICLE/1818/2007-07-02.html

U Hugh akalalo ilungelo lokuhamba ekloloda esethusela innocent people attending his shows. That is actually a low blow in my view uma ezakhuluma kanjalo esazi ukuba yena he is on stage, abantu ngeke bamphendula. Hugh cannot make assumptons about crowds that attend his shows. He has friends from Bulawayo, uyakwazi akwenzayo!

This is easy Mthwakazi. Let's send a delegation to meet him early before the conert and share our concerns. He needs to be reminded that those that mistreated him are not his cheerleaders, they are not even buying tickets to see him. I have a lot of his music, I see him as Mthwakazi, I just happen to have emigrated to Zim many decades ago. Besides, even if I had not, what does it profit him to send the Zim back, how much is he going to make at the end? It's a give and take. It might be a blessing in disguise to send some of us home because we would quickly meet with our loved ones after so long, then we'll go and bother him more in his homeland. Here me well, I sekela umasekela on his music, I just need a mentor to sit with him and show him the big picture. If I was in Canada I would attend his effort, let him come to US and I'll be there, he's also the Son of the Soil.

Mhlangeni angazi ukuthi ungaphi kwe US. Hugh will be in Detroit, Michigan on February 2nd; just this coming Sat. Ilizwi selihambile ngesiphatho abelaso ngapha kithi. Bamlindele abazahlala laye phansi bakhulume laye am sure. He staged a brilliant show ehamba lo Sibongile Khumalo, Khaya Mahlangu, some young fellow uNathi. It was just the perfect Southern African outfit. Those two minutes zokuntshuma kwakhe nje we so, so, so inappropriate. Usetsheliwe!

Ngesingami angicabangi ukuthi usuke ekusho ngoba ethi uzakwenza, kusuke kuyihlaya nje, ijoke. Ukewakusho la eUK ethi ungaphakamisi izwi kakhulu ngoba immigration izakuzwa besicingisisa isimo sakho.
Ngicabanga ukuthi njengo muntu owahlala kakhulu kulamazwe aphesheya, uyazi inkinga zabantu ezibasusa emakubo bazithole sebesemazweni abamhlophe, futhi kungenzeka sewake waphila enganawo lawo "maphepha".A nginabo ubufakazi obugcwele kodwa kimina kuba yihlaya nje njengoba ngishilo ekuqaleni.
UNtombazana weMalaika uke wamemezela ukuthi ufuna isoka, ese stage, kodwa elilelungelo lokuhlala lokusebenza la eUK.
Uyabona nje basuke behlekisa nje abantu benkosi ngobabezwelana labantu bebonisa ukuthi bayasizwisisa isimo abahleli ngaphansi kwaso.Hhayi bonke ngoba kukhona phela abakhomba ngophakathi, abangazi lokuthi nxa kuthiwa "amaphepha" kusuke kukhulunywa ngani.

Bilaz

Ungethuki dade, that was meant as a joke. Ku show yakhe ebise London he said more or less the same thing njengoba uNcomanzi etshilo. It was meant and should be taken as a jest nje. There is no way nor reason why he would want to call i immigration. Abantu basuke bathathele izinto literally lalapho okungafanelanga khona.

Thank you Sgero and Ncomazi for your explanations.

If you leave in a community where illegal aliens/immigration is a topical issue on an hourly basis, those comments would have rather been left for another occasion. Secondly, I really think Hugh humiliated himself and us given the audience he was perfoming in front of. There were literally less that 20 peoples of African descent in this at least 2000 people strong concert, the rest being abelungu in a town known for years for it's support of liberation movements against apartheid in the old RSA. It was literally a white crowd and not a crowd ese BF dominated by abantu! Zimbabweans numbered less than 10 bahlala/bema in their neat corner. It was obvious when they screamed in response to "sivela eZimbabwe" ehlabela his very emotional ngoma yakhe "Is'timela". His initial response was "this is not an immigration call" right...... People laughed, they thought that it was funny. He did not stop there, he gave a speech ending with him scoffing at the possibility of immigration officers pouncing on them that very minute! It was ugly. Whether he was joking or not, he went too far! No one was left with a doubt ukuthi that was over the top and xenophobic. Not just from Zimbabweans but most people including the other Africans present.

Baziyangisa to be honest. At the end of the show, the crowd refuses to leave the concert when the perfomers exited. It was a great show. They were forced to come back and do one more song. This is Sibongile Khumalo now(whom I really adore by the way )"when people ask for more, it is usually people who came to the concert using complementary tickets and have not paid the full price" ha ha haaaaaaaaaa ! I leave that to you to judge!!

Immigration officers here are happy to pick up an illegal alien (Gee, I hate that term) from anywhere! Angajabula na uHugh uma bengaqala ukudobha abantu from his shows??

Well Mabila you are entitled to your interpretation of the whole situation ...

Not everyone who is here does not have papers... what ever the situation is its always nice for one to have their own experience ....

Hatshi kangesabi ukuhamba kuConcert ngoba amaphepha ngilayo ....


For those that would want the experience ...... lets go and enjoy ...

Zwide,
I never suggested that people do not go to Hugh's concerts whether balamaphepha or not. Neither, did I suggest ukuthi abantu abalapha abala maphepha. What a baseless assertion that would be on my part!! Angazi ukuthi ukufunde ngaphi khonalokho. Read my posts again and understand the plain points I am making. Nxa ungazwisisi, kuhle ukubuza. Enjoy the concert. Hugh is a great perfomer!

U Bro Hugh is a great performer kodwa uhlupho yikuthi usuke azenze yena ongcwele ngcwele sometimes.
Some performers say things on stage ezingelangqondo bethembe ukuthi the audience will not respond and sometimes they think they are untouchable. Mina ngabona ngawami amehlo umuntu bemeqela estejini bemtshaya shem ngendaba zokudelela i audience. By the time isecurity imlamulela umuntu wenkosi wayeseluze a few mazinyo.
Hugh must be careful ngoba kuyeza ngakuye.
Kulabo abaku mainland europe he will be on tour the whole of May njalo ngiyalithembisa ukuthi akasoze ALIWUMANELE.

Bafowethu.

SOWETO, uyabathembisa sure, hk hk hk. Uthi kasoze aba wumanele, uyabathembisa, hk hk hk utsho ukuthi UYABE USUMLUNGISILE NA? hk hk hk.

Li Zwangendaba.

hk hk hk mina ngokwami angeke ngamlungisa kodwa umlungu onguye omletha ku tour ye europe ngubhururu wami. Ngimazisile ngalokhu elithi kwenzakala emelika wangithembisa ukuthi uzakhuluma laye. Ngingathola ithuba lokuxoxa laye(hugh) on this tour lami ngizamtshela ukuthi inkulumo yakhe ye imigration ITSHAYISA ABANTU NGOVALO BECINE BENGASAKHOLISI ISHOW SEBECABANGA UKUTHI ANYTIME KUNGATHUTSHA OMANTSHINGILANE hk hk hk hk.