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Tshwarelo Eseng Mogakane

COMEDIAN Kagiso Lediga of the hit TV comedy series, The Pure Monate Show, was booted off stage when he gatecrashed a performance by Mpumalanga’s man-of-the moment, DJ Sdunkero, in Nelspruit on Thursday night.

The Siswati-language radio station, Ligwalagwala FM, was celebrating its DJ’s success at the South African Music Awards last weekend.

Sdunkero won the MTN record of the year award for his hit, The Maputo Song.

Lediga took to the stage uninvited and started telling jokes, leading to a showdown between him and DJ Sdunkero.

Lediga asked Sdunkero to turn down the music, and started telling a joke about former president Nelson Mandela.

DJ Sdunkero responded by spinning his vinyls even louder.

“Music down, please. Music down!” urged Lediga.

DJ Sdunkero turned it down, and Lediga continued with his joke about how Mandela would have been “stupid” if he were like today’s youth who listened to hip-hop music and artists such as American rapper Snoop Dogg.

The crowd never got to hear the punch-line because DJ Sdunkero turned up the volume again.

“Would somebody tell this mother to turn the music down. Mother please, turn the music down, let me finish my story,” shouted Lediga in his trademark nasal voice.

But Lediga’s microphone was switched off and DJ Sdunkero kept playing at high volume.

The crowd headed back to the dance floor, and Lediga, who had been in Nelspruit to perform at another function earlier in the evening, was visibly upset.

“How could he just cut off my set like that? What kind of treatment is this? He could at least have let me finish. The crowd was loving me,” said Lediga.

Spokesperson for Mpumalanga’s department of culture, sport and recreation, Sammy Mpatlanyane, was not pleased with DJ Sdunkero either.

“No man, this is not cool. I brought Lediga here from another event as a favour.

“We are not even paying him for this, but they just switched him off like that,” he said.

But some fans felt that Lediga had no right to steal the limelight.

DJ Sdunkero said he was not disturbed by Lediga’s behaviour. “I didn’t hear him swearing at me at all. I was just busy doing my job,” he said. – African Eye News Service

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