CONTROVERSIAL singer Kelly Khumalo won’t be driving a lavish Audi A3 Cabriolet anymore, after her alleged lover, Zamokwakhe “Bhaka” Nzama, asked her to hand back the keys to his car after she allegedly assaulted him at the weekend.
Apparently Khumalo, the former girlfriend of murdered Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa, poked Nzama’s left eye on Saturday.
They were at the Elangeni Hotel in Durban before the start of the 14th Metro FM Music Awards. Khumalo left the Durban herbalist with a swollen eye.
Nzama told The Star’s sister paper, Isolezwe, that the fight started during the day after Khumalo told him to leave the mother of his two children, Jabu Mzobe, and commit to her.
Khumalo was angry when he told her he could not.
He decided to leave the hotel in the Audi A3 Cabriolet, but after a few minutes, returned to apologise to Khumalo.
He entered the hotel, stood next to Kelly and said: “You’re this beautiful when you have applied make-up.”
Instead of appreciating the compliment, it was like Nzama had poured fuel into the fire as Khumalo started fighting with him. She held his head and poked his eyes.
“I do not hate her but I took the car she usually takes pictures (and uploads them to Instagram) in,” he said.
“I went to the doctor and he said the eye did not burst, but I should not go back to work until I have recovered. Jabu has been nursing the injured eye,” he said.
Nzama said he had not spoken to Khumalo since the drama unfolded.
Although he said he would not open a case of assault, Nzama told Drum magazine that he regretted meeting the singer.
Attempts to get a comment from Khumalo proved futile as her phone was on voicemail the whole of Monday.
She was quoted in The Star saying: “Can I be left alone? This matter is private.”
Khumalo had attended the awards after being nominated in two categories, but walked away empty-handed.
In an interview with The Star’s sister paper, The Mercury in January, Nzama disputed claims that he had a romantic relationship with Khumalo.
He said: “We are just friends, and that friendship is because of a business we are establishing.”
However, news about Nzama paying lobolo to Khumalo’s family, so that he could marry her, surfaced last week.
Khumalo is no stranger to assaults. She was held in custody in October 2013 after she and her sister, Zandile, allegedly beat up Meyiwa’s customary wife, Mandisa Mkhize.
They allegedly assaulted Mkhize after Khumalo found the couple chatting in Empire Road, Joburg. They were granted R500 bail each, but the charges were later dropped.
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