People are suffering and through my music there is hope,” said Mazivelela. The 35-year-old, who runs a car repair garage in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, first broke into the music scene in 1995, when he joined then Bulawayo-based Ndebele mbaqanga group, Isizukulwane, for four years.
In 1999, he left the band to seek greener pastures in neighbouring South Africa, where he continued to sing on a part-time basis and recorded his debut album, The Beginning/Shikisha in 2004.