Times Of Swaziland: SRC DEMANDS REFUND FROM KALAWA ARTISTS

SRC DEMANDS REFUND FROM KALAWA ARTISTS
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BY KWAZI MASUKU on 17/03/2014 04:53:00


MBABANE – The University of Swaziland Student Representative Council (SRC)
wants a refund from Kalawa Jazzme.
This, after some of the stable’s artists who were booked to perform during the
Intervarsity Games failed to attend the shows.
These include Heavy K and Oskido. Heavy K, however, did arrive for the show but
could not perform as by the time he wanted to perform  the show had not started.
Information gathered was that he wanted to play at around 7pm because he had
another show on the same night.
Bonkhe Shabangu who is the Internal Affairs minister at UNISWA lamented the
state of affairs and said they will have a meeting where they will analyse
everything regarding the Intervarsity Games.
“We are expecting Kalawa to refund us because we played our part in terms of
payments and otherwise. We spent a lot in marketing and advertising the opening
bash and we cannot relax and let such an amount of money to go down the
drain,” said Shabangu.
Initially, after the duo failed to perform it was agreed they will be
rescheduled to perform alongside DJ Tira on the closing bash but again that
never happened.
“The critical part about the refund is to get the formula in which to get the
specific amount since we got a package deal but we are hoping to get to the
bottom of the matter,” Shabangu said.
Local promoter and DJ, Mxolisi Mthethwa, popularly known as DJ Peace, shed light
on what usually happens under such circumstances.
Contracts
“From what I know in cases like this, the promoter usually looks for another
date to get the services of the artists, at least according to one of the
contracts that I have from Kalawa. But under the subject regarding the UNISWA
issue I doubt they will need the services of the artists hence the refund I
suppose is their best option. However having said that obviously it will include
some administrative costs from both parties,” he explained.
On the day of the event Kalawa artists who performed included Uhuru of
‘Y’tjukutja’ track, Busiswa and Nokwazi.