DIE ANTWOORD TOUR 2013 EUROPE FULL
This email exchange appears to back up tabloid claims from 2014 (as published in full here): “It is claimed by two sources that Ninja sent explicit photos – in the act of having fellatio performed on himself – to at least one female member of the set. Several sources say he hit on female cast and crew, even in front of his partner Yo-landi. He invited them to Cape Town “telling them they would get a hotel room and hire prostitutes to join them”, said a source.” Yo-landi alluded in her Instagram post to ‘nude selfies’ taken by Ninja and Zheani (who, by the way, was 20 when all of this happened) – in the clip she shows screenshots of emails between Ninja and District 9 actor Sharlto Copely, whom Ninja met on the Johannesburg film set for Chappie: About a year after returning from South Africa and having no contact with the band, Zheani was flown to New York to model with Cara Delevingne.
It definitely appears that the band were following Zheani’s socials. Ninja later referred to the tattoos as a ‘spell’ he had cast on her: Ninja had referred to Zheani as his ‘stoner witch’ in previous communication: Whilst in South Africa, Zheani was tattooed by Ninja, in a traditional stick and poke style, with ‘Stoner’ and ‘Witch’ inside her elbows: ‘Watkin’ refers to Ninja’s real name – Watkin Tudor Jones.Īccording to the video, here’s some of the conversation between Zheani and Ninja ahead of her trip: We’re going to use screenshots from The Question (so titled because Die Antwoord means ‘The Answer’) to help explain this one. Any fan would be excited by having flights and passports organised by a band they look up to – right? But, she was a fan, had been contacted by the band on social media (we’ve seen screen shots that place the initial contact from Yo-Landi on Instagram) and had been flirting with Ninja online. She doesn’t look like she was in any way coerced to get on the plane. Zheani posted the following to her Instagram in 2013, evidently right before she got on the plane to South Africa: But understandable given the current situation. From the looks of it, though, all traces of the posts (and Zheani) have been removed from Die Antwoord’s social media accounts. One commenter on Zheani’s Instagram said: “Just casually seeing you on DIE ANTWOORD’S Facebook page omg!!!???” You can see the post they commented on here. Here’s what we do know: Die Antwoord/Yo-landi did have images of Zheani on their social media accounts when this all allegedly went down in 2013.
Yo-landi posted the following to her Instagram a week ago – this was the first we had heard of the accusations: This is a difficult story to get one’s head around. *Ī Brisbane-based rapper called Zheani Sparkes has released a track called The Question on YouTube, accusing Die Antwoord‘s Ninja of rape, pedophilia and distributing explicit images, and naming his bandmate Yo-landi Visser as an accomplice, grooming her online before bringing her to South Africa. Never believe everything you read on the internet. We will attempt to get in contact with both parties for direct statements. * DISCLAIMER: at this point we have spoken to neither party involved with this case, and are merely reporting from publicly available references.