The month of August has been declared aswomen ‘s month in the country, as part of paying tribute and celebrating women, an annual festival is held during this month. Songstress and actor Kelly Khumalo was part of the line-up in the Tribute to Women Festival, but the organisers decided to drop her because of the Zenso Meyiwa court case.

Since the case resumed, her name has been mentioned on several occasions. Now Kelly is loosing some gigs, and this is just the beginning of tough times for the singer. The cancelation comes after concerns where raised by festival goers on various social medias.

The statement issued by the festival organisers says, they take the concerns of the festival goers serious, it states “We respect the legal processes and wish to indicate that Ms Kelly Khumalo is innocent until proven otherwise. However, in the interest of safeguarding our festival, management has taken the decision to relieve Ms Khumalo of her obligations to perform at our festival this year to afford her and her team the time they require to deal with the issues emanating from the current court proceedings,”

“We have noted, with concern, various comments on social media platforms and calls from many patrons of our festival. We respect the legal processes and wish to indicate that Ms Kelly Khumalo is innocent until proven otherwise.”

This comes after state witness, Lambertus testified that two phone call records showed that one of Kelly’s cellphone numbers was linked to accused number five in the matter, Fisokuhle Ntuli. One of the calls was made 11 days before Meyiwa’s death while the other was made just over two months before.