Zimtownship yet to refund Tuku-Mukanya fans
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05 April 2008
By Brilliant Pongo
Hundreds of Mukanya and Tuku fans who had purchased advance tickets for the cancelled Birmingham show are yet to be re-funded.
The promoters of the Mukanya/Tuku show had promised a full refund to all ticket holders, but a number of people contacted Nehanda radio with complaints that the promoters had not made clear where, or how those with tickets could get their money back.
“We can not hold on to these tickets until another tour of the legends comes round because it may never happen again” said one fan. “All we ask for is our money and more respect from the promoters, they have made names for themselves and money for themselves largely because of us the paying public they owe their fame and little fortune to us, and that is why we say they must at least respect us enough to tell us how and where we can get our money back”. Demanded one fan.
“It was very easy for them to get our money why can they not just return our money in the same fashion” reasoned another fan.
Nehanda Radio visited a hair saloon in Wolverhampton, were tickets to this ill-fated show were sold and we spoke to the shop owner who said, “we sold a number of tickets on behalf of the promoters and they collected their money almost on a daily biases we can not refund the ticket holders because we do not have the money, it would have been easier if the promoters brought the money back to the shop and all those who got tickets from us came back here where they got their tickets for their refund”.
The promoters of the show are yet to make clear how those with tickets are to be refunded and where they could get their money. However, The issues surrounding the cancellation of the Birmingham show were made clear, as were the issues around Mukanya’s refusal to perform in London on the last day of the ‘Legends tour’ Thomas Mapfumo’s former manager Al Green clarified the mix up saying “Thomas was right that he had not been paid the full amount, and states that he asked for only 5000 pounds before the last show in order to mitigate the situation, instead of the full 5800 pounds owed.
When he wasn't paid he didn't play. I don't understand how it escalated so far, but if we don't get paid, we don't play, fair is fair.” “This sort of thing is not good for us promoters because the public lose faith and trust in us as promoters my hope is that Zimtownship the promoters in question be responsible and mature enough to respect the paying public and do the right thing.” said a Zimbabwean promoter who declined to be named.
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