
BY PHESHEYA IAN KUNENE
MANZINI – Slim-built, ever-smiling, and soft-spoken, she walks into the room with the kind of quiet confidence that makes you want to lean in and listen.
Her name is Siphokazi Tsabedze, but on stage she is known as Kasikazi, a rising afropop and hip-hop sensation determined to carve her name into Eswatini’s music history.
At just 15, Kasikazi discovered her voice. “I always loved music,” she recalled.
“It was more than a hobby for me. I wished to share my wisdom through songs, to encourage, advise and…




