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Busiswa calls for end to festive season gunfire after child’s tragic death
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|December 23, 2025
HEARTFELT PLEA
BUSISWA has renewed her call for an end to festive season celebratory gunfire, sharing a personal and painful memory to underline why the practice must stop.
“When Banomoya was Song of the Year at the end of 2018, I got a call for an interview on a community radio station in KZN, Inanda FM,” Busiswa said.
“On the other line, they also had a father who had just lost his six-year-old daughter exactly as the midnight fireworks were blowing up, in the moments when the song was playing on the radio.
This story is from the December 23, 2025 edition of Daily News.
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