There are two artists who claim to be the kwaito originators:[REF] One is Kayle Naidoo, who claims he was the first to mix bubble gum with House from the UK and the US back in the 1980s [REF].
The first official kwaito song played in South Africa, done by Erskine, with the usage of one of the most degrading words that white colonialists would call black Africans, is the Arabic word for 'non-believer' or a 'heathen' which is the word that Afrikaans described the natives with.