The rumbling feud between Sizwe Dhlomo and Vusi Thembekwayo flared up when Vusi Thembekwayo made jarring statements about the radiocaster during his interview with Penuel Mlotshwa.
Sizwe Dhlomo claps back at Vusi Thembekwayo
A near-decade-long beef about tweet plagiarism escalated into a public spat on Monday, when Thembekwayo, toward the end of his interview on The Penuel Show, ranted about how Dhlomo was the faultline in relations between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ in the black community.
Penuel’s attempt to gauge the businessman’s thoughts about inherent tensions between first and third-generation black aristocrats was degraded into a long-winded spout about his humble upbringing versus Dhlomo’s ‘nepo baby’ privilege.
The gist of it is, in 2017, Dhlomo, in a series of tweets, coined suggestions about addressing issues around taxi financing during a fiery industry strike.
Thembekwayo chimed in with a video that same day and made similar points.
Dhlomo, in response, accused Thembekwayo of plagiarism, and what was meant to be taken in gest escalated into a fiery exchange of insults traded by both parties.
Revisiting the childish spat years later, Thembekwayo made it clear there was no prospect of peace between him and Dhlomo.
“That’s not gonna f***ing happen, f*** him. I moved past that point when he made it personal and came after my kids,” Thembekwayo said.
Dhlomo caught wind of the scathing statements Thembekwayo made on The Penuel Show and immediately returned fire, belittling the businessman’s acumen.
“Now that time has proven you to be a fraud [and] me exactly who TF I think I am, all of a sudden, the tough guy has disappeared [and] now it’s humility talk. Nah pah, no winter is coming. I’m just built different!” he tweeted.
It’s pretty clear no love is lost between the KayaFM radiocaster and the motivational speaker.