Family suspected Zahara was bewitched

Last week, reports claimed that the sunger’s family suspected that she had been bewitched. Some claimed that someone had spiked her drink with muthi.

The singer rose to fame with her debut album, Loliwe, in 2011. In under a fortnight, the album had sold platinum and it went on to sell double platinum in 17 short days. So huge was the album that it earned her a staggering eight awards in the 2012 South African Music Awards.

When she broke onto the scene, her fame raged like a wild fire and she became one of South Africa’s biggest musical exports in the region with multiple sold out shows in Zimbabwe.