While delivering a memorable performance at the 2019 Windhoek Jazz Festival on Saturday, South African songstress Yvonne Chaka Chaka condemned the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa.
Wearing a traditional Oshiwambo dress as a sign of her comfort in Namibia, her ‘motherland’ as she called it during her performance of the song by the same title, Chaka Chaka said Africa should be united as exemplified by the ‘Bokke’ (Springboks), whose unity translated into them winning the Rugby World Cup in Japan on Saturday.
“The whole of Africa was behind the South African rugby team who won the Rugby World Cup on Saturday beating England 32-12,” the artist, also known as ‘the princess of Africa’ said.
Chaka Chaka noted that as a continent, Africa should stand together to build a stronger and better continent where all its people can live together in harmony.
To emphasise her point, she then sang tribal songs of the continent’s all-time celebrated artists including the late Oliver Mtukudzi and Brenda Fassie, to the delight of the audience.
Thereafter, she performed a song she recorded for the United Nations Children’s Fund with the children of the Sunshine Centre in Walvis Bay, which she sang in Oshiwambo.
Some of the artists who also performed on the day include Vusi Nova, Garth Taylor, Cícero Lee, Rose BLVC, Dan Shout, Sean K, Allistaire and the Swingers Dance Band, William Petersen, FuJazz Band and Ugly Creatures.