FMES: Tuwakumbuke Wanamichezo Africa! Sipho Mabuse Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse was born in Johannesburg on 2 November 1951 . Mabuse got his start in the African soul group the Beaters in the mid-1970s. After a successful tour of Zimbabwe they changed the group's name to Harari. When they returned to their homeland