Bonjo - I just want to play

He was wearing a black beret, white T-shirt and playing his cover version of a song by Dolly Paton. With his dark wrinkled face contrasted by the white T-shirt, bloodshot red eyes, the constant flushing of white teeth and his red tongue sticking out during song breaks after a long sip of a Black Label beer that was placed on the speaker nearby, I rued myself for not bringing the camera.

A year later - after disappointments of missed appointments for the interview - I tracked him down and found him back at that small bar in Serowe. He was already playing when we arrived and he agreed to do the long overdue interview during his next break. It is bad day for him because there is big football match on TV - Champions League encounter between South Africa's Orlando Pirates versus Egypt's heavyweight Al'Ahly.  So most of his supposed audience is giving him their back.  But the music must go on and his guitar continues to compete with cheers and jeers of football fans watching the small screen.