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Thamsanqa Masiya
Thamsanqa is a given name, from the Xhosa word meaning 'blessing(s)' 'fortune' or 'luck'. Notable people with the name include: * Thamsanqa Dube, Zimbabwean boxer * Thamsanga Mnyele (1948–1985), South African artist and anti-apartheid activist *Thamsanqa Shabalala Thamsanqa Shabalala (born September 29, 1974) is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a South African choral group founded in 1960 by his father Joseph. He replaced Joseph as the group's lead singer after his father's retirement in 2015 (see mai ... (born 1977), South African singer * Thamsanqa Gabuza (born 1987), South African soccer player {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thamsanqa Dube
Thamsanqa Dube is, since 2003, the heavyweight boxing champion of Zimbabwe. In November 2003, in Bulawayo, Dube beat Arigoma Chiponda with a technical knockout taking the heavyweight national championship belt. Dube beat Chiponda three more times in the next year. Dube has only lost once in his professional career, and that was by decision in his first match against Chiponda on the day he turned professional. On 1 January 2006 Dube knocked out a Zambian heavyweight, Joseph "Ramos" Phiri, in a 12-round contest at the Bulawayo Polytechnic College Bulawayo Polytechnic is an academic institution established in 1927 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, .... Notes Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Heavyweight boxers Zimbabwean male boxers {{Zimbabwe-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thamsanga Mnyele
Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele (10 December 1948 – 14 June 1985) was a South African artist associated with the anti-apartheid politics of the African National Congress and the Black Consciousness Movement. His artistic career took off in the 1970s when he produced works dealing with the emotional and human consequences of oppression. By the 1980s, his work followed the trajectory of the movement resisting apartheid, celebrating African strength and unity against the oppressors. Mnyele was born in Alexandra, in Johannesburg. His father was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and his mother was a domestic worker. He was sent away from the crime-ridden township to a boarding school in a village northwest of Pretoria when he was eight. When he was eight years old, his mother took him to stay with his father who then remarried Lemakatso Dorothy Mnyele. A skill which he maintained throughout his schooling and led to his hiring as a graphic artist by the J. Walter Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thamsanqa Shabalala
Thamsanqa Shabalala (born September 29, 1974) is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a South African choral group founded in 1960 by his father Joseph. He replaced Joseph as the group's lead singer after his father's retirement in 2015 (see main article for more information). Thamsanqa was born in Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) to Joseph and his late wife Nellie. In 1976, Joseph brought together his six sons to form Mshengu White Mambazo, Ladysmith's 'junior choir'. After the murder of his uncle Headman Shabalala in December 1991 and the retirement of several other members a friend called Geophrey Mdletshe and Thamsanqa Shabalala uncle Ben Shabalala), Joseph later recruited Thamsanqa and his brothers Sibongiseni, Thulani and Msizi. Thamsanqa began singing with the group as an alto voice (alongside Albert Mazibuko, who is a tenor voice) and has remained in the line-up since 1993. Together with his brother Sibongiseni and a well-known South African guitarist, Maqhinga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |