"Music has now become the salt of my life. I sing to heal my heart and my fans. I cannot live without rhythms in my mind and tunes on my lips," says a widow from Ha-Rathidili in Madombidzha village.

Vho-Dorris Davhana became a widow in 1998 when her husband, Vho-Muyahavho Maboko, was killed. As if that was not enough, her husband's grave was dug up and his corpse was found to have gone missing under mysterious circumstances in the Gogobole cemetery.

“This has become a sore in my heart,” Vho-Dorris said when speaking to Limpopo Mirror about her struggle to come to terms with the disappearance of her husband's corpse. “All people might have forgotten what happened with my husband's body, but not my children and I. I find courage to stay strong through singing gospel music.”

She said that she still needed answers from those responsible for stealing her husband's corpse from the graveyard. She also added that sangomas, men of the cloth and inyangas whom the community consulted said that Maboko's corpse had been exhumed and stolen by evil people. They added that the evil people wanted to use his flesh for muti purposes, since Maboko had been a person living with albinism.

Vho-Dorris' first album, aptly titled Shudufhadza, was released in 2006. Her second one, Baxolele Nkosi, which means Oh Lord, forgive them, was released in 2009. Her first and only DVD, Baxolele Nkosi, is doing well.

Davhana adds that she believes the person or people who exhumed her husband's body will one day receive the message contained in her songs and get to understand that life is not about acting sinisterly. She says she feels that the police were quick in giving up investigation into the matter, even though a R10 000 reward was put up for anybody who could come forward with the information. “If people who stole my husband's body come forward today and tell us where they'd taken his corpse, then I can forgive them,” she said, and her words refer to the title of her second album, Baxolele Nkosi.