MusicEast London
Maskandi Fest East London
Umafikizolo is listed on the lineup for the East London leg of Doek on Fleek's Maskandi Fest, running 10:00 to 20:00 at Buffalo City Municipality Stadium. Tickets on sale from R50.
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Umafikizolo
Umafikizolo is Khethukuthula Mhlongo, a maskandi singer from uMnambithi — Ladysmith — in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, 24 years old as of late 2025 and one of the genre's youngest chart presences. He records for the Insika Yethonga label, and his EP Uyoncengwa Unyoko — four tracks in eighteen minutes, released on 31 July 2025 — is maskandi in its classic shape: guitar-led, conversational, rooted in Zulu storytelling. The title track does the heavy lifting: 19 million YouTube views inside three months and a dance challenge that carries it far beyond maskandi's usual circuit. In December 2025 he becomes the first Zulu maskandi artist nominated simultaneously in the year-end song-of-the-year competitions of both Ukhozi FM and Umhlobo Wenene FM — a measure of how far one EP can travel in a single season.
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