Mafikizolo

IN December 2001, the talented trio of Mafikizolo nearly perished in an accident when two of its members Nhlanhla Sibongile Mafu and Theo Kgosinkwe had to be hospitalised after their car was involved in a smash with a train in North West province. God's hand saved them and as they would explain, it brought them much closer. It made Mafu, Kgosinkwe and Tebogo Madingoane work even harder, and paid dividends with their resulting 2002 album, aptly titled "Sibongile", Zulu for Thank You God. The album was much sought after and they've been in demand to perform almost every week.

It came as no surprise when Mafikizolo won two prestigious awards for the album Sibongile in April 2003. They won the Best Duo or Group and Best Afro Pop Album categories. Ironically, they went to collect both South African Music Awards at the same province, North West, at Sun City Superbowl, not far from where their near fatal accident occured. They were also honoured with a Metro FM-Cell C special award special in December 2002, and took the "Best Album"and other categories at the Metro FM music awards in November 2003

but later in 2005 tebogo was involved in a car hijacking which took his life .now the group consists of onlt 2 members nhlnahla and theo
and the group is still rocking as always
although one of them will be doing a solo project
but the group will not break up.