Durban - Multi-award-winning gospel artist Sifiso Ncwane has justified not supporting his mother by saying that she used the R3 000 monthly allowance he gave her to consult traditional healers.
The South Coast-born artist had tongues wagging recently after news broke that he had bought his pastor a R1.9 million luxury car, in appreciation of support and prayers while he had been ill. After the donation, Ncwane made headlines when his mother publicly said she was living in poverty because her son was no longer supporting her.
His mother, Fikile Ncwane, 60, also allegedly persisted in trying to persuade Ncwane to go to the traditional healers.
As a born-again Christian, Ncwane could not stand having his money spent on spiritual practices which he said were against his faith, like the consultation of sangomas.
Ncwane told Drum magazine that “kunemikhovu lapha (there are zombies around that house)”.
“This is the reason why I decided to stop going home and to not send my wife and kids there just in case they got sick.
“My mother is fighting with me because she wants me to consult traditional doctors, but I don't go to sangomas or inyangas,” Ncwane told Drum.
The singer did not answer his phone on Tuesday.
According to TimesLIVE, Ncwane has also said he did not think Fikile was his biological mother and that he was thinking of dropping her surname.
“I don’t think she is my biological mother – she claims to be my mother, but there’s no proof of it; no one saw her giving birth to me.
“All I know is that she left me with some relative of hers when I was 2 weeks old. She never raised me and she refused to show me my father,” he told Drum.
However, Fikile Ncwane told The Mercury that she had not abandoned Ncwane, and said that after Ncwane’s birth, his father had abandoned them.
“I decided to get a job on a farm and I left him with my sister. I used to buy washing soap, feeding formula, and candles, so my sister could take care of him. The claims that I abandoned him are false,” she said.
Asked about claims of zombies “around the house”, Ncwane’s mother said she would only speak to her son about the claims.
The Mercury