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Throwback alert: Mmusi Maimane's kwaito days from the 2000s have gone viral

An old clip of Mmusi Maimane performing on stage as a kwaito artist has gone viral.  In it, the politician, ordained minister, and now PhD graduate rapped and bopped to his catchy song, Mjita wako kasi. Maimane – who went by his stage name Aloysia, his middle name – wrote his PhD dissertation, an autoethnography, about his journey from Soweto to Johannesburg government leadership. THROWBACK:  MMUSI MAIMANE WAS ONCE A KWAITO ARTIST! On the X app,…

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IOL broke the news in South Africa on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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