Video: Comrade Chinx “alive and well”

HARARE - Ntombizodwa Mangota, the wife of the late musician Dickson “Cde Chinx” Chingaira, has said that she has struggled to make ends meet in the last few years, after family disputes meant she and her children walked away with nothing after his death.

Busi Ncube will perform in Bulawayo on the 11th of June 2023 at The place. She was 23 in 1986 when “True Love” the monster hit, she sang lead on, came out. She turns 60 this year. 4 filmmakers and a businessman were riding together in a Mercedes Benz. The song “True Love’ suddenly came on. One of the young film-makers was so impressed he asked which country this song was from. His colleagues laughed at him so hard it was almost embarrassing. He got away with the excuse: “I don’t really follow local music.” Generations have been born since 1986 who simply have no idea who these people were: Comrade Chinx, Andy Brown, Busi Ncube, Keith Farquharson, Don Gumbo, Gibson Batishta, Adam Chisvo, Munya Brown, Gibson Nyoni, and Virgillio Ignacia. 8 out 10 are deceased. Just 2 remain: Keith Farquharson (the youngest) and Busi Ncube. These, at one time or another where talented members of the fusion group Ilanga with more than one lead vocalist.

She is 58, has clocked 34 years on the music scene and despite having lost colleagues who were part of the much-decorated music outfit, Ilanga, that included Andy Brown, Don Gumbo and Dickson Chingaira (Comrade Chinx), among others, Busi Ncube has survived to tell a breath-taking music tale.

By Mtandazo Dube After the matter of who — between Cde Chinx’s two wives Patricia and Ntombizodwa — would get the Sentosa house at its handover ceremony in May 2017, the late Cde Chinx is said to have asked his benefactor, Joseph Nyadzayo, a question that still haunts him to this day. “He said to me, ‘Ko Zodwa pane chamamuitirawo here’ (Does Zodwa also get something)?’

November 15 has earned a place in Zimbabwean political historiography for a number of reasons. Having been there when it happened is an honour for most Zimbabweans as they will be able to tell it to future generations.