A multi-talented person across various fields, Babongile Sikhonjwa (Bulawayo, 1976-2025) is no more. <Read time: 6 min> Primary Schools: Baines Primary School; Mt. Batten Primary School, Harare; Cecil John Rhodes Primary School, Gweru; Baines Primary School.High Schools: Mzingwane High School; Milton High School.After School: Computer Science; Dip. Sound Engineering; North London University, UK. “No one […]
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We continue with former Dalom Kids’ front lady Jacqueline Rotwana. Read Part I here. My new book, Thole likaMthwakazi, about Bulawayo’s contributions to music in the world, is due 27 November 2025. <10 min read time> “We literally, were, kids”. The First Passport Stamp of… Zimbabwe. The Dalom Kids of…David Seagal sold us to Gallo […]
Before Destiny’s Child, there was Dalom Kids, and Umdala Joshua Nkomo was heard asking: “Kanti ngobani lama-Dalom Kids?”. On 14 August 1995, the album Izindunduma came out, and thirty years later, I have an exclusive chat with the notoriously private former Dalom Kids lead singer Jacqueline Rotwana (Johannesburg, 1973) who has finally gone solo with […]