Hilda Tloubatla

Hilda Semola Tloubatla
Birth nameHilda Semola Tloubatla
Born1942
South Africa
GenresMbaqanga, mgqashiyo
Occupation
  • musician

Hilda Semola Tloubatla (born 1942) is a South African mbaqanga singer, and the lead singer of the acclaimed group the Mahotella Queens. Tloubatla was born in Payneville, South Africa before moving to kwaThema township in 1951 as a result of (what was) the apartheid government's 'Group Areas Act' in the country.[1]

  1. ^ Info.gov.za, National Orders: Order of Ikhamanga, Hilda Tloubatla [1] Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, 2005.