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DJ's big day hits a snag

Ex-lover spoils DJ's wedding bliss

UKHOZI FM DJ Khathide "Tshatha" Ngobe is in hot water after a young woman vowed to go to court to stop him from getting married tomorrow.

Zathaba Nzuza hurriedly called in her lawyers yesterday after reading in Sowetan that Ngobe was set to marry fiancée Nontobeko Khuzwayo on Youth Day.

She claims he promised to marry her when he slept with her last October when she was still a virgin.

This comes after Sowetan reported that Ngobe was set to tie the knot tomorrow at an exclusive hotel in Ballito, north of Durban.

Nzuza's lawyer, who refused to identify herself, confirmed that they were dealing with the matter. The lawyer, who claimed to be a Johannesburg-based advocate, said they were still trying to get hold of Ngobe to discuss the matter before they go to the Durban high court to seek an interdict to stop the nuptials from going ahead.

She said they would try to resolve the matter amicably. "But if we do not get hold of him before the end of business today (yesterday), then we will be forced to come down to Durban to pursue other means of getting hold of him."

A furious Nzuza, 20, yesterday vowed to do everything in her power to ensure that Ngobe did not marry anybody else until he had paid damages to her family for taking away her virginity.

"It's either that," she said, "or he will have to take me as his second wife.

"I met him in 2008 at the reed dance. I was 17 at the time. I visited him on a number of occasions at his flat in (the Durban suburb of) Morningside. I only slept with him because he promised to marry me," she said.

"The relationship was fine until I heard from my cousins that he had paid lobola for another woman. When I approached him, he said he was going to make me his second wife. He later changed his tune, saying his religion did not allow him to have more than one wife."

Nzuza said she insisted that he at least pay damages.

"When his uncles eventually came to pay in May this year, I did not expect that he would send them with only half the damages. They only paid R2000 and one goat and promised to come back with the rest," Nzuza said.

Ngobe was unavailable for comment on any of his seven telephone numbers yesterday.

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