Steve Hofmeyr is a controversial South African, and also you’ll both love or hate what he stands for. His upcoming December efficiency on the Hartklop in die Kaap (Heartbeat within the Cape) live performance has been met with outcry by among the public, who feels that the singer is simply too controversial to share the stage of a live performance celebrating variety.
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Listed here are among the singer, actor, and artist’s earlier controversies which have made him newsworthy over the previous few years.
Hofmeyr’s MultiChoice Ban
As a result of his failing reputation on broadcasting networks and controversial feedback about South Africans, MultiChoice determined to cease exhibiting the singer’s content material on their community.
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As reported by The South African web site. this 2019 occasion was met with an tried boycott by among the artist’s followers. In response to the MultiChoice ban, the singer drove over his DStv decoder in protest. MultiChoice didn’t put his content material again on account of this.
MultiChoice isn’t the one firm to ban the artist. MSC Cruises have additionally distanced themselves from the singer earlier than.
Hofmeyr’s LGBTQI+ Lawsuit
In 2023, Steve Hofmeyr was taken to the SA Human Rights Fee over his feedback directed at LGBTQI+ people. In response to Out.org.za, the ultimate ruling within the Gqeberha Excessive Court docket on March 13 this 12 months made Hofmeyr pay a severe superb (with a subsequent apology) for his feedback.
The singer’s Twitter/X account nonetheless stays controversial, the place he calls himself a “nationalist” and “sometimes-rocker”.
Steve versus Bono
Again in 2011, Steve threw live performance tickets price roughly R5, 000 into the Jukskei River.
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After discovering the U2 singer Bono’s feedback an excessive amount of to abdomen, Hofmeyr determined that he wouldn’t be attending the U2 live performance anymore. A few of Hofmeyr’s followers subsequently destroyed their live performance tickets in solidarity with the singer.
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The meat between the 2 singers was so well-known that it prompted a cartoon by the well-known Zapiro.
Hofmeyr and the Outdated Flag
The singer has additionally come below hearth prior to now for his help of the outdated South African flag.
Sadly for him and a few supporters, the show of the outdated SA flag has been dominated as hate speech based on the Equality Court docket.
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