I was a big fan of Die Antwoord since I was probably about 16, when a colleague in my first job showed them to me. I don’t know what it was about Die Antwoord but I fell in love with their music and I was an avid listener for 7 years (I’m old, gross). But that all changed, I always had a sneaking suspicion that Ninja was a weird guy but this blows all my assumptions out of the water. Die Antwoord have MILLIONS of fans across the world, but strangely enough not enough people know about what Ninja did to Zheani, and I’m here to clear that up.

March 9th 2019: Zheani released a song entitled ‘The Question’ along with a new EP. The Line. The song lyrics consisted of allegations against Ninja and Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord. The allegations from the song are as following:

-Ninja invited her to South Africa to have sex with her due to her resemblance to his daughter.

‘You said you fucking picked me

Cos I looked like your daughter

16 you’re disgusting (Sixteen Jones, Yolandi and Ninja’s Daughter)

Paedophile cunt’

– Die Antwoord’s persona is completely fabricated, Yolandi is told how to speak and all of her lyrics are written for her and Zef is nothing more than a stolen style from street kids

‘Soft Private school boy you’re fronting

You jacked white trash gangster style

-Ninja shared sexually explicit photos of them on the set of Chappie.

‘You shared those photos while on set with Blomkamp

Emailed them to Copely that was a crime cunt

Sex offending ass come to ‘stralia get locked up’

-Yolandi is helping Ninja to groom fans.

‘Go fuck yourself Yolandi

“Give the ratties candy and they’ll be eating out your hand”

I don’t give a fuck you spent a decade with the man

Getting brainwashed by this man

You’re still playing out his plan

And grooming up his fucking fans’

-Ninja trafficked Zheani after Yolandi contacted her on instagram before DM’s were invented

‘You contacted me and I would bet that he told you to

Good little renfield just the way that he moulded you

He trafficked me to Africa, that was your bright idea

Filled me with fright and then the demon appeared

The fear, only 20 years, to find out I’m deceived

The nice man for the internets not who I came to meet

I never told what happed cos the fear of disbelief

For years my brain could not conceive what happened to me’

-Ninja branded Zheani with a tattoo, which has since been laser removed and took her to a forest where they took mushrooms and he ejaculated inside her after he promised that he wouldn’t

‘Torture ritual, candle vigil, an innocent girl and a sick individual

Torture ritual, candle vigil, an innocent girl and a sick individual’

-Yolandi claimed Zheani was obsessed with them, ugly boy one of their biggest songs was written about Zheani and Cara Delevingne was in the music video only because Zheani worked with her

‘S go ahead and tell a story and deflect how you always do

About that “weird vegan fan” that was “soooo in love with you”

You wrote Sex about me you wrote Ugly Boy about me..

I wrote this about you

I think its fair trade dude

March 10th 2019: Yolandi responds to claims in a 2 part instagram post

‘CLOUT CHASER part 1

It has come to my attention that a DA fan girl called ZHEANI has accused me of some really horrible things. I dont usually respond to these things as people say shit abt me all the time. But this time she has attacked my family including my daughter.

Me and ninja broke up in 2013- I started seeing someone else. And Ninja had a bunch of girlfriends at the time.

One of them was a fangirl from Australia called Zheani, who Ninja invited to south africa to visit him. She accepted the invite and came to visit shortly after.

i think she stayed in SA a total of 4 days or something… (might of been bit longer.. cant remember) i only saw them once during her visit. As you can imagine it was a lil awkward cos our break up was still kinda fresh. I bumped into Ninja and this girl and she asked me for a foto. My first impression of her was she seemed like an obsessive DA fan girl – her hair was cut exactly like mine but she also seemed sweet.

Ninja told me aside that after meeting her in person, he didnt really have chemistry with her. Shortly after this he cut the trip short an she returned to Australia.

But Ninja felt bad because he said she was a nice person. And they stayed friends on txt.

A year or so later (cant remember exact dates) we played at the Big Day out Festival in Australia. Zheani hit us up and asked us if she could help us get Vegan food on tour. We said yes as i thought that was a cool idea.

So our management hired her as a PA for our crew. She brought me vegan food every morning on tour – she was really sweet and knew her food well.

But when we were backstage i did notice she was trying very hard to hit on 2CHAINZ the rapper who was touring with us. she gave him her number 10 seconds after meeting him and kept hitting on him and his crew the whole time. I thought this was kind of lame

– but not a big deal.

Anyway the tour ended and the last time i saw this girl she brought me a vegan burger in my hotel room. I said good bye, gave her a a hug and I never heard from her again. ninja told me he stopped speaking to her after the tour because he said she was irritating.

CLOUT CHASER prt2

5 years later this fan girl Zheani comes out with an insane story saying she was ‘trafficked out’ to africa by me 😂 (trafficking involes kidnapping btw). She also said i tortured her and put her in a satanic ritual🤪. (just for the record me and ninja are Buddhists, we practise yoga, meditate and are vegetarian. Yes our music and videos are crazy as we are Surreal Artists)

this girl is ticking all the boxes of a Crazy Person here. She said ninja dated her cus she looks like my daughter ❓❓❓I mean… WTF???

i know during the 4 days ninja “dated” her, they took a nude selfie together that Zheani sent to Ninja afterwards.

Ninja never posted this foto. He’s had so many girlfriends ever since and Zheani was long gone and deleted.

this was 5 or 6 years ago and now she comes creeping out the woodwork, with this mental story she’s made up in her head to try launch a music career. This is a typical case of Clout Chasing (google that shit)

plz let this be a lesson to y’all. Be careful who you let into your space, escially IG thots . love all but trust no one!!! Women are very powerful. But women who get dumped can turn sour and sour and more sour. It is dangerous when they start making up lies and believing their own bullshit to get back at whoever dumped them. Dont abuse your power girls. “You can fool some people sometimes, but you cant fool all the people all the time” -Bob Marley

This is the last time I’m mentioning this girl. I wish her good luck with music, but it would have been stronger to set her career off with good energy, instead of shooting herself in the foot.

Anyway, back to reality.

Love you all

xx ¥’

March 12th 2019: Zheani receives a cease and desist letter from a lawyer representing Die Antwoord. (RED FLAG!!!)

Zheani responds with

“I would appreciate it if you stop threatening me.

Anri and Watkin are publicly lying and defaming me, (I will be perusing[sic] legal action now I realize to what extent they are lying)

Everything covered in The Question is true and I have evidence of serious crimes committed.

By the way, here’s a screenshot of him (out of nowhere) asking me to come on tour. Is it illegal for a lawyer to file a fraudulent cease and desist against a victim of abuse?

I’ll make sure to ask. Because if it is, you will be hearing from me as well.

Warm regards,

Zheani”

March 18th 2019: Zheani’s music video for the question is posted, with screenshots verifying everything she claimed. Please watch here for more context<—–

In this video she claims that Ninja raped her and from that point she had a bad feeling about him so they flew her back to Australia. An album of all screenshots from the music video will be found here <—–

March 20th 2019: Ninja and Yolandi respond two different youtube videos which no longer exist as they posted links for links of Zheani’s private photos – (RED FLAG NUMBER 2)

March 22nd 2019: Zheani posts screenshots where Ninja is seemingly bragging about beating his backup dancers. She says

“Here you can see Ninja bragging about abusing his South Africa back up dancers. If you swipe to the end you will see a document from Brisbane Magistrates court signed by a Justice of Peace to prove to everyone that all of the screenshots I have and will continue to share are authentic. This is who the rats are defending. I would advise all the rats to take a week off and think about how, by distributing my revenge porn, you have all committed crimes against me and enabled a serial abuser. If either Watkin or Anri dare step on Australian soil they will be arrested and charged for distributing Revenge Porn (3 years in jail under 227a and 227b put into action the 19th February 2019, “The new offence will apply to any intimate image regardless of how or where the image was captured or made”) This beef is for life. I am not ashamed. I am not afraid. Fear is the mind killer. I will never back down. This is much bigger than me and my experience. It is my opinion that Watkin Tudor Jones is a serial abuser of women, physically and psychologically. I am simply the first person to come forward.”

March 25th 2019: Zheani’s house gets raided as a fan from the Die Antwoord sub reddit reported her, she shows in an instagram story that the hinges of the door were broken off

March 31st 2019: Zheani’s music is taken down from apple, as of typing this, it is still up, she said this in a statement

‘so this morning I woke to an email from @distrokid informing me that they had received a take down request for my entire album due to a dispute. Rather than waiting for a reply they told me not to contact them and proceeded to remove my entire album off all streaming platforms (it’s already gone from Apple Music) apparently songs like The Red and Can’t Trust a Bitch in which I describe abuse suffered throughout my life is also not something that Die Antwoord would like people to hear. Just so all independent musicians understand; One letter from a fancy lawyer, no doubt filled with lies, is all it takes to have your entire music catalogue removed. Modern day book burning. If you’re an artist you would understand how soul crushing this is. Is the moral of the story to never be honest? To never stand up for yourself? I refuse to be inauthentic. I refuse to keep secrets for an industry that mistreats and abuses its power. This goes so much deeper than one fucked up man who found some celebrity and power and proceeded to abuse it.’

My thoughts

I first heard of the Zheani claims through the Yolandi instagram post and from what I read I was siding with Die Antwoord, but that was the intention, they manipulate fans. Die Antwoord have MILLIONS of fans, Zheani was an unrecognisable name, only when I searched for her on instagram I found her account and ALL THE EVIDENCE, I realised that she has more evidence than Yolandi suggests. At the time I found her account she had around 80K followers, which sounds like a lot but when you put into perspective the fact that artists with millions of followers have responded to a claim and have tried to backtrack on everything really speaks volumes. It appears that many fans have sided with Zheani too, according to social blade she has gained 35K followers over the last month.

Yolandi and Ninja have tried desperately to hide this from their fans, fans on the Die Antwoord sub reddit are being vicious towards Zheani but the truth is, she has had a cease and desist letter, AND STILL she posts the music video to The Question, with screenshots backing up each lyric. If anybody else who had so much to lose at this point received a cease and desist letter they would immediately stop everything. She has had her Instagram account shadow banned and she may lose the only thing that keeps Die Antwoord fans in the know about everything that happened to her when she was 20 years old. That is why I am writing this, Ninja DEFINITELY manipulated her when she was only 20 and I worry that Zheani’s story will go unheard from fans. Whether you think he did it or not, you must remember that STILL Ninja posted revenge porn, if you truly think her claims are nonsensical, just remember the only thing Ninja had on her was her nudes FROM A PATREON THAT PEOPLE PAID FOR TO SUPPORT HER IN HER MUSIC CAREER. Ninja and Yolandi call Zheani a prostitute for showing boobs in her performance art that people are more than happy to pay for, but if they really want to play it like that lets not forget that Yolandi flashes her vagina every time Die Antwoord play Baby’s On Fire, and Donker Mag literally has Yolandi nude as the album art.

This story will not go unheard, this is just another story of artists manipulating fans and covering it up.

please show your support by steaming The Line and following her on instagram (probably before the account gets removed) at @askulloffoxes

*The declaration that a judge signed to prove all screenshots are real has disappeared from Zheani’s account but this video shows it. *

please support Zheani on Patreon!

11/04/19

Zheani was interviewed by Youtube channel No Jumper regarding Die Antwoord’s abuse and attempts to censor her – please watch

Update 13/04/19- Zheani’s music is removed once again, no lawsuits as of yet so it appears that Yolandi and Watkin are just trying to scare Zheani, typical.

askulloffoxes @ instagram: ‘edit***

the line is now gone off all streaming platforms <\3

Today I woke up to see that the new aggregator I paid to host THE LINE has lasted only a week before caving to forceful censorship demands from those who must not be named (apparently if I say their name my Instagram posts mysteriously disappear) I’m not going to be silenced and every time they attempt to, I only become more emboldened to stand my ground. If they only knew what was coming next they would be focusing on more important things than trying to censor a girl they continue to abuse. Shameful.’

15/04/19

Still no EP on Apple Music and Spotify but the EP is still on Soundcloud, also The Question is still up on Youtube so please sit through the ads, even if it is those really annoying MLM ads. Remember- please don’t forget to become a Patreon to Zheani’s incredible art.

16/04/19

Using social blade I can see DA have started to lose subs and monetisation on videos, they now earn £14 – £231 per video when before all this they were earning £106 – £1.7K per video. oops Ninja.

Yolandi posted a story today saying “exfoliating with the tears of my haters” and uploaded a picture, she has stopped deleting comments about Zheani but fans are still defending Ninja and Yolandi. Her follower count is dropping considerably and Ninja of course no longer has an Instagram account. Just remember though, do not threaten Yolandi, she clearly cannot speak for herself.

24/04/19

Zheani has made another post on Instagram regarding the status of the Line EP:

“The Line is still censored from most streaming platforms. Not being able to have it up these past weeks has cost me thousands of dollars that I do not have. As an independent, self funded artist, it is heart breaking. I have uploaded “The Line” for purchase on band camp, the link to that is in my bio. By censoring my entire album they have suppressed my story and this was done intentionally. The true story of a foster care kid, coming from a history of abuse and poverty to finally face her millionaire, private school educated, post Apartheid abusers. No wonder they need to use lawyers. L

I am lucky to have a couple of people in my life as support. The forced and illegal censorship of my music has left me pretty much broke. At this point if I didn’t create my Patreon this month in retaliation to being labeled a “satanic p-word” I would be in financial hell right now. (can’t use the word I was called by them on social media, in the past my post was deleted for using it. Welcome to 2019) So please add financial abuse to the revenge porn, physical, sexual and psychological abuse that I have experienced at the hands of ******* (edit. Not going to use their name so they can’t report and remove my post as “harassment” like they have in the past.) Like I said, this beef is for life. Anyway, the past month has caught up with me. I was in denial about my Nan’s death in order to cope and keep doing everything I needed to do. My Nan bailed me out of the child safety system when I was 11 for 3 years and I am eternally grateful for her and everything that she did for me at a point in her life where her health was rapidly deteriorating. I’m in a dark place and I’m not going to act like everything is okay, even though I feel like I am supposed to. I don’t do that anymore. I have drawn The Line.”

28/4/19

Die Antwoord have posted a series of videos to their Instagram talking about the drama, filmed by their daughter 16. they have also now disabled comments on instagram posts which seem really fishy. They both seemed uninterested in that second “statement”

Just a reminder, if you are becoming a Patreon DO NOT share Zheani’s images.