JOHANNESBURG - The late Zimbabwean entertainer, Nevernay Chinyanga A moment of silence was marked at the South African Music Awards in respect of Chinyanga and several other artists who died in 2010. The talented entertainer died in Johannesburg in November last year after a long struggle against hypokalaemia. He was 40.
Chinyanga was popularly known as Muwenga, a character he played in the now-defunct soap Studio 263. Meanwhile, Freshly Grounds video that speaks out against President Robert Mugabes stranglehold on power missed out on an award.
Chicken to Change, the popular video, lost out to a video by The Parlotones.
Chicken to Change sings about what a noble supernova Mugabe was, a shiny star and how somewhere along the line he lost his way. In the video, the band is dressed in Zimbabwes 1980s fashion and dance a choreographed chicken dance. Puppets depicting former South African president Thabo Mbeki and current leader Jacob Zuma, accused of helping to maintain Mugabes stragenglehold on power.
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