Original Pantsula is back

Twenty-seven years ago kwaito music took away mapantsula on a vibey ride and later died in Durban leaving mapanstula stranded in a confusing identity crisis. Some of the lost mapantsula adopted the cheap imitation of the original pantsula and dubbed themselves ‘manyora’ while other veered off to the ultra disgraceful ‘iskhothanes’ and burnt clothes and washed their hands with premium single malt whiskeys in an endevour to demonstrate their kind of ‘class’. Even without any mainstream music icons, the original pantsulas have found their feet and are gathering together to bring back pantsula cred(ibility) to the streets, writes THALEFANG CHARLES