HARARE – Musician and President of the Zimbabwe Musicians Union (ZIMU), Edith WeUtonga Katiji, has attacked poet Albert Nyathi, saying he lied at the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (ZIMURA) Annual General Meeting, saying he quit being a member of ZIMU.
According to Edith, Naythi lied to his members and that he made the whole AGM about ZIMU instead of talking about issues that affected ZIMURA.
“Zvino kana murume mukuru wakuita Zimbabwe Musicians Union, your agenda at your flop AGM zvinobuda here?” asked Edith.
She continued, “Instead of listening to motions to stop the AGM, you imposed it on members. For the record, the man in the picture (Albert Nyathi) has never been a member of the union, yet he told a full house of 100 members out of 5000 that he was and had quit. When?
“One wonders just how many more lies were told on the day just to get through it and avoid answering the hard-hitting questions from the people. Your lack of transparency, integrity, and honesty has failed an entire industry and denied musicians of their royalties.”
Edith has since deleted the post, but she surely had no kind words for Nyathi as she concluded the now-deleted post with insults in Ndebele.
Tagging Nkululeko Dube and Raisedon Baya, she wrote, “Please bafo, bambeni umdala lo… nxa iyi dementia simelaphise. The cancer ayitshiye eZIMURA has him all over it. And if he wants to talk about ZIMU, kabuye la! Nyathi Albert.”
Nehanda Radio caught up with Albert Nyathi, who said Edith could not say all these things to him in person when they met in Bulawayo the night before Babongile Sikhonjwa’s funeral.
“We met at a club with Edith, funny enough, she had to be part of the band that had to play for me as I did a pop-up performance. It was awkward, but she couldn’t say all this stuff to me in person. I have to act as the bigger person in all this,” said Nyathi.
