Good evening and welcome to the first edition of the arty beats in 2020, My name is Thuto Ngobeni.

The second edition of the Isandlwana Battle Musical Lecture returns to South Africa's Joburg Theatre from January 24-26.

Founder of Value of Culture, musician, historian and heritage enthusiast, Mbuso Khoza, will be accompanied, once again, by the Afrikan Heritage Ensemble as they present the happenings of January 22 in 1879, using the music language.

The Isandlwana Lecture sees Khoza presenting not only a gripping picture of the pressures that drove both sides to a terrifying and bloody confrontation, but a definitive history of the battle that has shaped the political fortunes of not only the Zulu people but of the entire African population in this part of the world to this day.