Tracing the 'legendary' Kwataeshwele

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He looks disoriented and his illness seems to have taken its toll on him. The man is a pale shadow of his former self and very few would believe that he is the legendary folk singer Taka Baponi, better known as Kwataeshwele.

Worse still, his younger brother, the equally famous Malefo Mokha also known by his stage name Stampore, does not know who will accommodate his elder brother once he is discharged from hospital.

When the Mmegi team finds Kwataeshwele at the psychiatric ward of the Scottish Livingstone Hospital in Molepolole, the man looks frail. It seems like years of hard living and alcohol abuse have taken their toll. According to family spokesperson Doreen Baponi, Kwataeshwele was found bed-ridden in a shack, where he was lodging, towards the end of November. The artiste was mumbling to himself and could not move without support.

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