Sfiso who? Gospel singer wants nothing to do with the Ncwane's and their surname

29 September 2015 - 15:03 By Times LIVE
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Gospel singer Sfiso Ncwane and his wife Ayanda.
Gospel singer Sfiso Ncwane and his wife Ayanda.
Image: Sfiso Ncwane via Facebook

Gospel singer Sfiso Ncwane dropped a bombshell this week when he said he does not think his "mother", Fikile Ncwane, is his real biological mother and that he wants to dump her surname as a result.

The revelations, published by Drum magazine in their latest issue, come barely a week after Fikile ​revealed that she sometimes went to bed on an empty stomach while "my son buys expensive gifts."

Fikile was referring to Sfiso buying a R1,9m V8 AMG Mercedes-Benz for Reverend Francis Anosike of Rock of Victory Ministries church.

But just when Fikile Ncwane thought she had smoked the peace pipe with her son after the gospel singer subsequently filled her fridge with groceries, the 60 year-old mother got a shock of her life when the Kulungile Baba hit-maker told the magazine in a wide-ranging interview that he wants to change his surname to that of his late father’s, Zikhali.

“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,” the Umkhuleko hit-maker told the weekly magazine.

“All I know is that she left me with some relative of hers when I was only two weeks old. She never raised me and she refused to show me my father.”

Sfiso is serious about not wanting anything to do with the Ncwane family anymore, according to the magazine.

“I can’t associate with people who are plotting to kill me. The Ncwane’s have been nothing but a headache to me yet they all depend on me for support,” he said.

Speaking to the Daily Sun on Tuesday, an angry Fikile said Sfiso was lying when he said she is not his real mother. She told the paper of how she had to work from house to house as a domestic worker in order to provide for him.

Asked about Sfiso wanting to dump her saurname, Fikile said: “He can change it if he likes…but he will suffer for the rest of his life.”

Fikile said Sfiso’s father left when he was still very young.

Responding to claims she read in Drum that "there are zombies" in her house, Fikile told the Daily Sun that: "Yes, I do perform rituals in my house to protect it from thunderstorms and evil spirits. Maybe Sfiso does not understand that as he is a born-again christian."

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