EBC partners with choral for elections

Dear Friday, I’m so glad we are back together. I’m sorry you had to see me with Mon–Thurs, but I swear I was thinking of you the whole time.”

—Anonymous MBABANE – Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) has partnered with local choral as means of transmitting their messages through music for this year’s elections.

7his \ear¶s elections are governed b\ the 6logan ‘Ngete Ngasala Nasakha Live’, which is a statement that maNes emphasis in enhancing a democratic government s\stem. ,t¶s worth men tioning that this is the first time the (%& partners with a local music genre in (swatini mainl\ choral.

7his partnership worNs well when a certain organisation wishes to transmit their messages to a large audience through the use of music. $ similar case where an organisation partnered with music e[perts to get across a mes sage to a large audience is the 8nion of (uropean )ootball $ssociations 8()$ &hampions /eague.

League

7hrough the anthem of the &ham pions /eague which was originall\ captained b\ the lead singer )reddie 0ercur\ together with the %ritish band Nnown as µ4ueen¶ the\ were successful in presenting the soccer troph\ as iconic to fans around the world since this anthem is now widel\ loved and respected.

7he (%& also thrives to get a mes sage of enhancing a democratic gov ernment through using local choral to pass their message of a collective participation in this \ear¶s elections as the\ are the ones that gave the local choral members the guidelines to be followed in composing the elections theme song.

to maNe em phasis of this \ear¶s theme which is enhancing a democratic government.

$ccording to the (%& 'eput\ &hair person 6ipho 7embe this was also a wa\ to demonstrate to staNeholders that music was now the new wa\ of transmitting messages and choral was targeted as it was among the most loved genre in the countr\.

³7he tasN before us as a commission is ver\ huge therefore we cannot do it on our own so this \ear we looNed to engage different partners to sup port us so that at the end of the da\ we achieve our goal. :e decided to partner with the choral organisation because we want them to help us send the message through music. 7he\ are ver\ good with music the\ are the people we were looNing for all along because the\ are interested and the\ love music. 4uite a number of people enMo\ choral music the countr\ is one of the best under 6outher $frican 'evelopment &ommunit\ 6$'& countries when it comes to choral music hence we want to conve\ the music in whatever form thus we engaged 1tMilo 1tMilo ´ 7embe said.

He further went on to disclose that the\ gave the choral group the theme of the elections and the\ creativel\ produced the informative song. ³:hat we did is that we gave them the theme and ever\thing was done b\ them.

Creative

µµ7he\ were creative in producing this song and , can confirm that we shall continue to engage them on the upcoming secondar\ elections which we thinN will be held sometime in 6eptember this \ear. 7his will be an ongoing partnership throughout the elections as well as those that will come in the coming \ears ´ 7embe said.

7he choral team was conducted b\ veteran chorister 0athoNoza 6ibi\a during the (%& breaNfast meeting. 7he elections song is currentl\ worN ing in line with (%&¶s obMective of advocating man\ ema6wati to partic ipate in this \ear¶s elections through registering as the song is being pla\ed on the national radio station which is (swatini %roadcasting and ,nforma tion 6ervices (%,6 .

(Pics by Mxolisi Dlamini.) Some of the Ntjilo Ntjilo members captured rendering their elections theme song during the breakfast meeting.

Ntjilo Ntjilo members posing for the lenses during the breakfast meeting. They are the brains behind the vocals of this year’s elections theme song.