Madosini Manqina Latozi was born
in Umtata, in a village called Mqhekezweni in the Eastern Cape. Madosini
was influenced by her mother, who was also an expert in the playing and
making of musical instruments. Since being known in the whole of Mpondoland
as the greatest musician of the time, news went as far as Johannesburg
and a search for her was launched. After a few years, one of her nephews
who went to the mines as a migrant worker came back after his contract
expired. He told her that he had heard one of her songs being played in
a music shop in the heart of Johannesburg. Again in the mid-eighties one
of her songs, Nozimanga (Uthando Luphelile), was used as a backing on
the then Radio Xhosa drama series, Aah Nasizwe! Being illiterate and lacking
the means, Madosini never pursued the matter. Her only hope was that time
would tell. Great sounds, songs, times and memories are recalled when
Madosini is giving a bit of the story of her life. She would say to you
in Utando Luphelile "My son ! Love has disappeared nowadays since
money became the living thing. Modernism has taken us by surprise. Go
anywhere in the world and you will find that people are hopeless, there
is no self-reliance. People would just go past you without even saying
hello. What is life then ? There is total destruction of mother nature
through the lack of communication, in short no love.
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