Last Saturday night the boys from the Young Zulu Warriors took part in the 10th National Is’cathamia Competition in Durban City Hall. For once I happened to be on weekend off and staying in Durban and we went to support them. The competition started at 7pm and finished around 10am the following morning! We go there around 7.30pm and the boys were number 18 in the line-up but didn’t get to perform their one song until 11.30pm!
Thankfully we were able to come and go in and out of the building to see various performers and then rejoin the boys outside where they were entertaining passers-by and also scaring off the lesser competition by singing loudly. We only saw maybe 6 other groups, and the standard was high. But when the YZWs came on stage, their sound levels and power in their voices blew the competition away and made everyone sit up and take notice (especially those who were already dozing!).
They did really well and walked away the next morning in third position. Considering this is a national competition they did really well.
