AKA confirms breakup with DJ Zinhle

Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes has confirmed that he and baby mama Ntombezinhle ‘DJ Zinhle’ Jiyane have called it quits after less than a year back together and weeks of confusing reports about the state of their relationship.

In an interview on Metro FM on Wednesday, AKA said: “It’s been a crazy start to the year, I had to go away. I went on holiday. I was just speaking off-air that I went on a very cold holiday. As people might have noticed it’s my first holiday being a single man for many, many years.

“It was a bit different but you know it was a boys trip and it was all about just re-centring myself for 2020. We have so much coming up this year. I’m just getting myself in the right frame of mind to continue to dominate the radio, the charts and everything else.”

The rapper was in South Korea with his brother and friends after the breakup and shared snaps of the trip on social media, while DJ Zinhle also went on a vacation to the beautiful Mauritius island with BFF Pearl Thusi and broke the internet with their bikini snaps.

Last year in March, they seemed to have rekindled the spark years after a public spectacle involving accusations of cheating, with AKA publicly defending now ex-girlfriend Bonang Matheba against Zinhle.

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DJ Zinhle opened up in August about the cheating scandal. The DJ said it had been “tough” seeing AKA with Matheba after their break-up but she had coped with it.

Zinhle had endured constant trolling on social media for getting back together with AKA, who is the father of her daughter Kairo. She publicly exposed his affair in 2015 and left him, having apparently found out about his cheating a week before their daughter was born.

Last year, on getting back together, she said: “If there is an opportunity for me and someone to reconcile and if I feel I want it, I will take a chance because I don’t want to question myself four years later. The fact that I want to try, the fact that I have a feeling that I want to try and that I want to be with this person, it’s what I want right now and I always go with what I feel and making the best decisions for myself right now.

“Tomorrow I might wake up and feel it’s a bad decision to be back with the father of my child. Tomorrow I might feel like it’s a great decision, but right now, being with the father of my child brings me joy and that’s what I want right now.”

AKA also confirmed that due to a knee surgery he has to get some time this year, the Fees Must Fall concert had been postponed.

“We’ll do that in the middle of the year. We’re very much dedicated to the cause and it also gives us a little bit more time,” he said.

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