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EVERY DAY IS HARD

SHE was at home getting ready for a show when she heard that the father of her child, the man she’d been in an on-and-off relationship with for years, had been gunned down along with his friend in a brazen shooting at a Durban restaurant.

Ntombezinhle “DJ Zinhle” Jiyane cancelled her performance and put everything else on hold as she tried to process the news that Kiernan Forbes, the rapper known as AKA, was gone.

How would she explain it to their daughter, Kairo? How would she tell the then-seven-year-old that she’d never see her dad again, or dance around the house with him, or have him shower her with

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