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          South African musician

          Musical artist

          Thandiswa Nyameka Mazwai (born 31 March 1976)[2] is a South Africanmusician, and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin.

          She is also known as King Tha.[3]

          Her debut album Zabalaza (released in 2004), which attained double platinum status and her album also got nominated for Planet Awards on BBC Radio 3.[4] Also in 2004, she won Best Female Artist at the Metro FM Music Awards.[5]

          Her second album, Ibokwe, released in 2009, was certified gold status within a few weeks after its release.[4]

          Early life

          Thandiswa Mazwai was born in Eastern Cape in 1976 – the year of the Soweto Uprising – and grew up almost entirely in Soweto, Johannesburg, amidst the heavy apartheid township violence of the 1980s.

          Both her parents, Belede and Thami Mazwai,[6] were journalists and anti-apartheid political activists, and she recollects that her home was fil