Khumalo talks, walks back to her roots
Thursday, January 29, 2015
“I do not need to explain myself or anything to anyone. Things happen to people all the time. Why do people expect me to react how they would react? I react differently to things that even I shock myself at times,” Khumalo tells Showbiz in an exclusive interview. The controversial singer and actress made it clear before the interview that she does not want to talk about ‘the topic’ that has landed her in almost all front covers of newspapers and magazines. She seems to have buried the past and is more than ever determined to move on and concentrate on her life and career.
“When people expect me to go north, I will go south,” she says when responding to why she has never had a public statement on the events that took place on October 26, 2014. Khumalo, who had an on-and-off relationship with the father of her child, Senzo Meyiwa, was present during the tragic shooting of the Bafana Bafana and Pirates goalkeeper.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...