Kasi Mlungu gets thrashed for 'making money' off black culture

15 February 2017 - 17:47 By Chrizelda Kekana
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Twitter is up in arms over local DJ The DuchAz aka Kasi Mlungu, whom they feel is making making money from being "black."

BLACKGROUND FIGURE: Anita Ronge, aka The DuchAz and the Kasi Mlungu, chills with friends at Phosa's Tavern in Tembisa
BLACKGROUND FIGURE: Anita Ronge, aka The DuchAz and the Kasi Mlungu, chills with friends at Phosa's Tavern in Tembisa
Image: SANDILE NDLOVU

Anita Ronge from Joburg is a white local house DJ going by the name The DuchAz or Kasi Mlungu. The DJ started trending after she shared on Twitter that she gets bashed for embracing 'blackness."

She made an appearance on the Twitter trends list on Wednesday afternoon after debates over her motives divided Mzansi.

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Some felt she was "parading blackness" to make money.

"Black people are jailed, shot at, caged, placed in coffins for being black," but Kasi Mlungu "tweets to earn the same respect," wrote someone.

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At the same time some defended her saying that some "black women attempted to be white with weaves."

"I get rejected for not being black enough and being too black to be white ... I'm #KasiMlungu & I'm proud," said Anita after she first started getting backlash.

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