DRAMA: Steve Kekana’s family fumes – Attacks his manager for disclosing cause of death

The disclosure by legendary musician Steve Kekana’s manager that the artist died of Covid-19 complications has pitted him against his family.

Celebgossip has learnt that Kekana’s family confronted his manager, Xolani Majozi, and reprimanded him for the disclosure.

They also allegedly banned him from Kekana’s memorial service which was held in Polokwane, Limpopo, on Tuesday and even excluded him from the list of dignitaries who paid tribute to the muso at his funeral service in Zebediela on Thursday.

News that Kekana’s burial service was touched with a touch of behind-the-scene dramatization was uncovered by Kekana’s associate who staggered on the instant message shipped off Majozi by Kekana’s niece, Nerry Mojalefa.

In the messages, which Sunday World have seen, an irate Mojalefa requested Majozi, who is the chief of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, to clarify who educated him that Kekana kicked the bucket of Covid-19 inconveniences.

Apparently Majozi revealed that Kekana passed on of Covid-19 complexities subsequent to addressing the craftsman’s offended spouse Ntsiki Kekana.

“Kindly update me on who educated you that my uncle died from Covid inconveniences?” peruses the content.

At the point when Majozi didn’t answer, Mojalefa terminated another instant message at him and revealed to him that Ntsiki was angry with the revelation. “So presently you can’t talk? What you did wasn’t right and you had no right.

You realize very well you weren’t shipped off address the family, yet alone [sic] addressed rakgadi Ntsiki, she is extremely vexed and you exacerbated the situation. Who sent you to address the media in the first please?” she asked in the message.

Addressing Sunday World yesterday, Mojalefa said she was as yet aroused at Majozi’s exposure that Kekana passed on of Covid-19 intricacies.

“It isn’t so much as a fact that my uncle passed on of Covid-19. Indeed, even the one who imparted the bed to him on the day he went to medical clinic didn’t have the foggiest idea what the issue was with my uncle and we all actually don’t have a clue about the reason for his passing. So this implies this person simply needed to accumulate exposure by spreading lies about my uncle and he has not apologized to the family for his rowdiness,” said Mojalefa. She added that Majozi’s revelation that Kekana kicked the bucket of Covid-19 tossed his burial service arrangements into confusion as numerous individuals who needed to go to the burial service finished remaining endlessly.

“We were likewise compelled to notice the strictest Covid-19 guidelines on account of his careless assertion.

“Would you be able to envision that injury he caused us,” she said.

Mojalefa additionally said Majozi, who was welcome to the commemoration administrations coordinated by Limpopo Artist Movement (LAM), didn’t go to because of the question and was excluded from the program as a speaker. “He didn’t go to the memorial service,” she said.

LAM executive Mphoza Mashabale affirmed that they welcomed Majozi to the remembrance, yet he didn’t come.

Majozi affirmed that he didn’t go to the commemoration since he was excessively occupied.

“The help date conflicted with my different responsibilities. I went to the memorial service and nobody raised this matter there,” he said.