[6] Mbaso continued featuring for Ndola but was on the verge of switching to FAZ Division III outfit Zambia Eagles early in 1979 when he met his death.
[9] Zambia lost the play-off 2–1 with Mbaso featuring in all the three matches and he made his full international debut on 12 December 1973 in a 3-1 Jamhuri Cup defeat to Kenya.
The 21 year old Mbaso impressed and ended up featuring in all six games as Zambia went all the way to the final which they lost to Congo DR national football team after a replay.
Mbaso featured for Zambia when the country hosted the East and Central Africa Tournament in 1975 only to make an early exit after losing both games at the group stage.
[17] The driver of the truck stopped and found Mbaso bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth and rushed him to Ndola Central Hospital where he died the following day, leaving behind a wife and two children.
[20][21] Shortly after the court's ruling, another band called the Mulemena Boys released a song entitled Teiwe Bembile, which translates into “They were not singing about you,” and contained lyrics asking a widow if she was the only one who had lost a husband.
Barbara would go on to become a very successful businesswoman and years later, she joined politics and contested the Bwana Mkubwa seat in the 2006 Parliamentary Elections on the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) ticket but lost to the Patriotic Front (PF)’s Joseph Zulu.
[23] She petitioned the results claiming she lost due to character assassination by PF cadres who played the Mukamfwilwa song every morning during campaigns in an apparent attack on her.