Unathi Biography, Age, Divorce, Court Case, Age, Net Worth, Children, Career
Author of the book I keep learning – A memoirs by Unathi Nkayi, Unathi is an iconic woman. With a beautiful soul and the kindest eyes, she radiates eloquence and authenticity you rarely find anywhere else.
Unathi Biography, Age, Divorce, Court Case, Age, Net Worth, Children, Career
Name : Unathi Nkayi (formerly Msengana)
Date of Birth: 6 November 1978
Place of Birth: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
Occupation: Singer, Song Writer, TV and Radio personality, Actress
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: Sinako Msengana and Imbo Msengana
Net Worth: $1 Million to $5 Million
Background and Education
Unathi was raised by her mother and father in Grahamstown. She was intrigued and enthralled by the media and she dreamed of being a television host.
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Unathi studied her secondary education at Victoria Girls high. After matriculating she went on to study International Media studies in the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She also holds another degree from Rhodes University in her hometown.
Career
She started off as a co-host of the television series, Popstars in 2004. However later on she became the co-producer due to her journalism degree. Unathi then landed in radio. She became a host of YFM, Metro FM and Kaya FM. Her longest stint has been with YFM where she is still a host up to now from 2004.
Children too are unknowingly a huge fan of Unathi as well. This is because she has done voice-overs for Doc Mcstuffins as Rita the Cheetah! Any mother to a toddler would know the show as an edutainment series on Disney. It’s one of the few Disney animation shows with a lead who’s a person of color.
Unathi then went on to be a judge on idols and she is the longest serving judge. She has been around for 8 seasons.
Unathi Biography, Discography
In Honour – 2008
With love – 2011
Evolution Delux – 2013
Buyelekhaya – 2015
Umbulelo Wam – 2016
Brave, True and Strong – 2017
Net Worth
Unathi is a household name in both TV and Radio. As such, she makes a lot of money as a TV and radio presenter. She is a well known judge on SA Idols and a beautiful songstress. Her current estimated net worth as of January 2020 is between $1 million and $5 million. She also gets sales from her memoir book as well.
Her attitude towards money in general has propelled her money making ventures further as well.
Love Life
Unathi was married to Thomas Msengana for over 10 years. Their marriage ended after Bad Boy T was caught sexting another woman. He also had sexually explicit pictures of the said woman. The woman was identified as Noluthando Thando Dlalisa.
Is Unathi an alcoholic?
Unathi found out her husband was sexting another woman. She became depressed and she turned to alcohol to cope. However she managed to work through her depression and is better now. And no, she is not an alcoholic anymore, thank goodness. Thanks to her strength and dedication of course!
Was Unathi taken to court?
After everything else, Noluthando had to throw in a protection order against Unathi. She was claiming that Unathi was harassing her. This was because Unathi took to social media and exposed the sexting scandal. The court however dismissed the claim while only granting Noluthando a temporary protection order.
Did Unathi and Zola date?
There was palpable chemistry between them in their music video for Sana lwami. But Unathi is adamant they were never a thing. She does admit that they were crushing on each other hard. But they were both too shy to make a move. Alas, we missed a power couple that would have been King and Queen of music back then, who knows!
Controversy
In 2019 Unathi was bashed for being playful with a tribal joke whilst congratulating Luyolo, a 2019 SA idols finalist. Xhosa people were ‘tired of holding up the nation’ she joked. This led to a lot of backlash on twitter with people even threatening to boycott the show if she did not issue an apology. Unathi issued an apology and the show went on unscathed.
#IdolsSA hawu Unathi you said this👇🏾@IdolsSA @Mzansimagic #Luyolo pic.twitter.com/BzH3WCTaZN
— #humanDignity 🐊🐊🐊 (@angie43639902) November 10, 2019
Recent news
Unathi recently revealed that she lost three family members to Covid19. Her aunt and uncle passed away on the same day. She pleaded with Mzansi and the world to take this pandemic seriously. As Covid19 is a very real and very deadly virus. Her message was very grim saying, “People of Eastern Cape and Western Cape, carry on with your nonsense… You will die.”
In the words of Unathi, stay indoors and protect against Covid19. Do not tempt fate!
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