South Africans thanked Anele for defending Zahara who reportedly played her songs on air on Tuesday, 12 December.

@Deartroublegal tagged the radio personality and tweeted: “Thank you @Anele for saying it loud on air. “They took her money, but they couldn’t take away her talent”.

 

@Tabongz_SA quoted the radio personality and tweeted: “They took her money, but they couldn’t take her talent away” @Anele

The musician’s old videos about her fight for “fair” remuneration against her first record label, TS Records also trended this week after her family confirmed her passing.

TshisaLIVE reports that the Loliwe singer spoke with pain about remuneration under TS records, owned by Thembinkosi “TK” Nciza and Sibusiso Leope aka DJ Sbu.

The award-winning singer, who left the label in 2017 revealed on Podcast and Chill : “They still owe me, for real. At the end of the day, they know what they did. They could charge for gigs R80,000 or R120,000 with the full band or R100,000. I used to get R15,000, but even that I had to beg for.”

SABC confirmed that Zahara passed away on Monday evening, 11 December at the age of 36 in a Johannesburg hospital.

The singer’s memorial servi

@TheeFirstLaidee: “So touching @Anele @AneleAndTheClub. I remember when her first album was released, we bought multiple copies of the cd at home. Played it day and night!! Zahara was so talented Loliwe is no doubt a classic!!”

@ruwa_dzano: “I remember when Loliwe was released, I had just bought my first car. I went to Cresta Mall and bought my first CD for my car. Loliwe was the first CD I bought, and it was played on repeat to work from work, everywhere …. Zahara, rest in perfect peace.