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Song breathes like the sea
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|M&G 25 April 2025
Jabulile Majola is not just a musician — he is a storyteller who treats music like a life-long friend.
You feel it in the way he speaks about his art — not as something to be conquered or mastered, but as a companion that has walked with him, whispered to him and sometimes even carried him along the winding paths of life.
His latest single Isineke, from his upcoming debut solo EP Isitifiketi, is no exception — it’s more than a song, it’s an offering, a quiet gesture toward something all of us need more of: patience.
Translated from isiZulu, isineke means patience, but the word unfolds more gently and richly in Majola’s interpretation. This isn’t the kind of patience that bites its lip and taps its foot waiting for the world to catch up.
This is patience that loves. Patience that listens. Patience that holds space. The kind of patience that relationships are built on — carefully, soulfully and with the quiet trust that the other person is trying too.
Listening to Isineke feels like overhearing a secret shared between two hearts. It moves like a whisper floating above an acoustic guitar, waves lapping at the shore beneath it.
This story is from the M&G 25 April 2025 edition of Mail & Guardian.
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