Good news! Zola's not hosting Mzansi Magic's Utatakho anymore.
Presenter and motivational speaker Nimrod Nkosi will be presenting instead and hosts his first episode on Tuesday (1 September).
According to Mzansi Magic, Zola's no longer hosting because he's too busy with his other commitments, which makes no sense to me. There are only five episodes of the season left so it's very weird and illogical that he's suddenly so busy he can't continue. Contracts don't suddenly change because a presenter decides he's "too busy" to finish the show.
Unless they're too busy
not paying maintenance of course. My first thought when I heard the news was that he's been given the boot because of his recent maintenance scandal. In case you missed it... Zola admitted to Move! magazine that he stopped paying maintenance for his children, claiming that their mother neglects them and won't let him see them.
So he decided to punish the children by not paying maintenance. He didn't say this obviously but it's what the situation is. It's the same awful story with him over and over and
over again and it's all so wrong and unacceptable.
It started years ago already -
back in 2010 - when the SABC canned his show Zola 7 after allegations that he abused women and didn't pay maintenance. A year later e.tv gave him another chance to headline a show and he returned to TV for Rolling with Zola, which ended with him attacking a journalist and
admitting it.
And now Mzansi Magic has done the same. They gave him the starring credits on a show and he stopped paying maintenance yet again. While hosting a show about family reconciliations and the role of fathers!! That's the craziest thing... the very essence of the show is about
not doing what Zola's done.
When I first heard he was hosting it I was wary because of everything that's happened in the past and how it jarred with the subject matter of the show. I decided I would give him one last chance though - it made me uncomfortable but I did. And now I'm
so over him it's the last chance I'll ever give him.
There has to come a point where is enough is enough - in ANY relationship - where you stop taking someone back because they've hurt too many people too much and he's crossed this line for me too many times. It's never going to happen again.