Freeway was an obscure and never mentioned South African group led by the prominent jazz and fusion bassist Sipho Gumede. Together with guitarist Enoch Mthalane, pianist and keyboardist Jabu Nkosi, and several other unnamed but well-known greats of South African jazz, he formed this short-lived band project. In 1975, they recorded their debut album Abahambi "Balomhlaba" in Johannesburg, which was released that same year as one of the first releases on the South African label Flame. The musicians were masters of their instruments. On this masterpiece of Afro-soul jazz and jazz-funk, they performed sophisticated arrangements with incredible grooves, both as a collective and in creative solo passages, in which they were able to showcase their skills to the full.

Although they were enthusiastically received in South Africa's Black townships, they were denied radio airplay in the apartheid state. Consequently, this album met with no success whatsoever and remains to this day a lost and virtually non-existent album. The few copies ever released have all disappeared into private collections. The group subsequently disbanded. Unfortunately, no further recordings by this particular line-up are known to exist. Sipho Gumede went on to found Spirits Rejoice and, in the 1980s, was both a member and producer of the acclaimed band Sakhile, which blended traditional South African music with jazz fusion.