Ikalanga song and dance captivate many

The crowd that had thronged the Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) tent last Tuesday was left spellbound as 27-year-old Thenjiwe Ntogwa and her two fellow dancers, Chenesani and Sinikiwe Ntogwa took to the stage.

They pounded the red-carpeted parking lot at the Thapama Hotel with gusto and energetically sprung up, eliciting cheers from the seemingly partisan crowd. With her hands on her head, like the horns of a never de-horned Masai cow in East Africa, Sinikiwe Ntogwa was given the whole stage to do her thing. She dashed a long distance from the drummers of Kangangwane Ntogwa, Amos Ntogwa and Abbie Thengu whose rattles or matlhowa tied to her thin legs produced an entertaining sound on the side.