‘A joke!’: DBN mayor Mxolisi Kaunda launches music career [watch]
Singing for his supper? Tweeps are in disbelief after Durban Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda revealed his musical ‘side hustle’.
There’s very little that surprises South Africans anymore…so when eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda whipped out a microphone and performed a song he had written at an official city event this week, no one batted an eyelid.
Flanked in his official regalia, the man known as the “amapiano mayor” belted out the track which had guests on their feet.
MXOLISI KAUNDA SINGS SONG AMAPIANO TRACK
On Thursday, eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda took to an erected stage to perform his song.
A clip of the performance went viral on social media. Sunday Tribune journalist S’boniso Mngadi tweeted: “Mayor performs his single track in front of international delegates at the Coastlands hotel”.
Whilst the music blared from the speakers, Kaunda was seen dancing whilst wearing his mayoral chain. In the background, posters of the municipality adorn the stage.
The mayor was performing his hit amapiano song Mtomusha, which is aimed at inspiring the youth.
It’s not the first time the mayor performed the upbeat track. In March, Mxolisi Kaunda performed the song at the 85th-anniversary celebrations of the SABC held at the Onomo hotel in Durban.
Punting both himself and his son – who he claims wrote the track – Kaunda asked the SABC to play the song at “all of the stations”.
According to Daily Sun, he said: “The song was produced by my son, who recently completed his studies in sound engineering. We were sitting at home when he created the beats and called me to add vocals to convey my message”.
He added of the lyrics: “If you want to communicate with young people, its important to use an easy way that will reach them. Music is a good medium because they like it.
TWEEPS REACT: ‘NO WONDER DURBAN IS A DUMPSTER’
But not everyone was impressed with mayor Mxolisi Kaunda’s message. In fact, many disgruntled Durbanites quipped that the mayor should rather spend his time focusing on service delivery, and in particular the city’s beach water which has been contaminated by a sewerage leak due to damaged pipe stations
@McBills89: “While sewer is contaminating the ocean. Ohh i forgot, we as black people solve everything by singing”
@underscoreurb: “Talk about multiple streams of income”
@copes27: “Follow your dreams. Politics is his side hustle”
@Sir_Godfrey: “Comrades have a lot of time on their hands mos, they even have studio time”
@HelloThando: “SA is alive with possibilities, shem”
@Mizzyb1: “So being a mayor is a side hustle for him? No wonder people complain about what a dumpster Durban is”
South Africa is a simulation ???????????? pic.twitter.com/IQ26MSKZGf
— Madima (@MaanoMadima) September 15, 2022
Comrades have a lot of time on their hands mos, they even have studio time. pic.twitter.com/ghlV01C4zy
— Tamacti Jun (@Sir_Godfrey) September 16, 2022
South Africa teaches us something new everyday. pic.twitter.com/F9iqjHsJN1
— Lawrence Raboshaga (@TheOtherTso) September 15, 2022
Actor and media personality Siv Ngesi also chimed in on his social media page. “This country is a movie”, he quipped about mayor Mxolisi Kaunda’s actions.