TKZee entered the music scene in 1996, in South Africa. The group consists of members Tokollo Tshabalala a.k.a. Magesh, Kabelo Mabalane a.k.a. Bouga Luv, and Zwai Bala.

At the beginning of their journey as Tkzee, Tokollo, son of the former Bafana Bafana coach Stanley ‘Screamer’ Tshabalala, had already been in the scene as a member of the Kwaito group Mashamplani with legendary Mdu Masilela.

Zwai had trained in classical music and was the first ever black member of the Royal Music Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was also the first black member of the Drakensberg Boys' Choir, where he won a scholarship to study vocal studies, teaching and performance at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Kabelo had already been overseas from a music education exchange programme in the United States.

The three members are all alumni of St. Stithian’s College, where their friendship began.

One of Tkzee’s biggest milestones is “Shibobo,” TKZee’s collaboration with Bafana Bafana’s Benni McCarthy was recorded in Amsterdam, the song sold over 100 000 copies in just over a month, becoming the highest selling single in South African music history at the time.

What we do is not exactly kwaito. OK, it is township pop, but… It’s music that most of the young people in this country dance to. It’s a bit like rap, I suppose, but it is South African; a kind of South African hip hop. – Zwai Bala