Last man standing in class of 95

Seven Eleven are amongst the kwaito pioneering groups in Botswana but only a few people know of their music. Founding member Eugene Lebona is the only man standing in that class of 95.

That was the year the group was formed and released the debut album Ze Entry, which flopped culminating in the group's 11-year absence from the scene.

In 2007 the quartet - Lebona, Loabile Talagae, Karabo Pitso and Reuben Montsho - re-grouped, went to Sunshine Records in Pretoria, South Africa, for the release of their second project, El Gordo. But if they had hoped that El Gordo would change their fortunes for the better, they were terribly mistaken as it only served to push them further down the channels and they disbanded.

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