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BALLERS League will help revellers reminisce of the hey days of Kudu Bar when they take to the decks together for the first time in years during a Remember Kudu bar bash at Hartsfield shisa nyama today.

Between 2008 and 2009, Kudu Bar was the place to be for the who’s who of Bulawayo with the joint pulling a record crowd of more than 4,000 revellers at a New Year’s Eve party.

Now the original Ballers League DJs, Kead Wikead (Club Eden), Mellow T and Slamma (Horizon Night Club) will go head to head with 3D Events DJs Liz, Crazy Black, Slimza, Staffa, Nospa and Welly. The Guest DJ is Victor Bravo.

Entrance will be pegged at $5 all night.

Mduduzi Mdlongwa of 3D Events said the show was meant to remind people how to have fun.

“Remember Kudu is for those that recall how having fun was at Kudu Bar and the memories shared. We’re only opening Kudu Bar just for one night,” said Mdlongwa. He said the Remember Kudu party was being held on the eve of Africa Day because people should party and rest the following day.

Ballers League, which was founded by Bulawayo socialite and comedian Babongile Sikhonjwa and the late DJ Gunz in 2004, was known for organising shows and parties in the city. The pair teamed up and formed the Ballers League that became trendsetters in the city.

They then incorporated DJs Kead Wikead, Beaster, Slamma and 5 Star to form Ballers League which was a counter to Ivy League that had a predominantly white following operating mostly at Ivy’s (Old Miltonians Sports Club).

Places like Kudu Bar, Bulawayo Athletic Club and Windermere Hotel were very popular with the city’s youth during the time Ballers League managed the joints.

After the Kudu Bar was closed due to allegations of youths engaging in lurid sexual activities and drugs, Ballers League “relocated” to Thabantshu Lodge, about 20km outside the city.

In 2010, they went back to Kudu Bar and mid-year they took over Visions which was known then as Bar Labala. Last year they took over Jock and Saddle before it was shut down for renovations and reopened in 2013 as Club Eden under new management.