Mbabane – Sancheziey, also known as Salukazana, is a Swazi traditional Afro pop artist known for blending Swati cultural sounds with Western melodies and African instruments to create a distinctive sound. He will represent Eswatini at the 2026 Maletsunyane Braai Fest in Semonkong, Lesotho.
The festival will take place from 27 to 29 November 2026 and is known as Africa’s highest and coolest braai experience. It will be staged against the backdrop of the 192 metre Maletsunyane Falls.
Speaking to Swazi24 in Mbabane, Salukazana said the opportunity was bigger than his individual participation because he would be carrying Eswatini’s culture across the border. 
“Being a Liswati going to Lesotho is more like the whole kingdom is going to Lesotho,” he said.
The artist said his performance would allow him to share Eswatini’s cultural identity with Basotho audiences and promote the vision of taking Swazi music to the world.
He said being selected to perform in Lesotho showed that his music was reaching audiences beyond Eswatini.
“It simply confirms that whatever that we are doing it really touches an African child. It really inspires an African person.”
Salukazana described his music as cultural or traditional Afro pop, a style that combines Eswatini’s traditional sounds with contemporary Afro pop instrumentation.
He said the music was intended to connect younger listeners, who are drawn to keyboards, pianos, strings and modern beats, with older generations who appreciate traditional voices and melodies.
“It is a bridge that connects the younger generation and the new generation,” he said.
For his performance at Maletsunyane Braai Fest, Salukazana said he was working with Basotho collaborators to create a musical connection between the two countries.
He said some Basotho contributors were assisting with writing songs so that the performance would include Sesotho alongside Siswati.
“We’ve already started in communicating with few of our Basotho people that are helping us writing the songs so that when we get in the other side we don’t only sing with Siswati but we also incorporate the Basotho people with their language and our hit song Siyabonga Gogo.”
Salukazana said festivalgoers could expect a performance blending his cultural Afro pop sound with the atmosphere and identity of Lesotho.
His latest project, Umhlaba Welive, is available on digital music platforms and YouTube.
He said the album contains music for both older and younger audiences. He added that Basotho listeners who had heard the project were looking forward to hearing him perform Halala at the festival.
The artist said the setting at Semonkong, surrounded by mountains and waterfalls, would add to the experience for performers and audiences.
He invited emaSwati, Mozambicans and other music lovers planning to travel to Lesotho to attend Maletsunyane Braai Fest and support his performance.
“Let me invite you that we are going to Lesotho not only as emaswati but also as the African children who are proud of their culture.”
Salukazana said young people across Africa could draw confidence from their cultural roots.
“With your culture you stand and no one is going to sell your culture more than you which is the same thing with us in Eswatini there’s nothing we can sell that no one else can sell as we can besides our culture.”
