Singer and recording artist Mnqobi Nxumalo said he recently visited Zahara’s home. He also shared that he often visited her home when she was around and said it was difficult to come to terms with the reality that she has passed away.

“We were at Zahara’s [home]. My heart sank at the thought that the first time I go to her home [and] she’s not even here. It is so difficult as a fellow musician to even witness this. We may be smiling, laughing and trying to make the place less sombre but deep in our hearts, It’s heavy and we have to be the strong ones,” he said.Nxumalo revealed that he got a chance to speak with the late singer’s mother, Mlamli Mkutukana and said she opened up to him about not having expected to have a superstar child. “I never want my mother to ever be surrounded by a million strangers who are flocking [her] home just because I am now absent for good. The one person she would rather have in the room is nowhere, whilst there’s thousands of people walking in and out [of her home],” he added.

“Before this picture was taken, we had been having a brief convosation about how she was never ready to be a mom to a superstar and it changes the very idea of grief for her. I wished I could just hide her from all this yet she has embraced it with so much strength,” Nxumalo said.Zahara was born in Phumlani located just outside of East London on 9 November 1988. She died at 36 years old at a Johannesburg hospital. Speaking to the SABC, family spokesperson Nkosiyam Mkutukana was quoted as saying. “We would like her to be remembered as a very humble child, very kind… she put our family where it is now during her life she did what she did to put us in greater heights we would love people to remember her as a hero.”