The Kaya Breakfast team shared honest, hilarious and divided views on love and money.
By Bulelwa Hoala
Fresh off American singer-songwriter Gwen Guthrie’s 1986 anthem “Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On but the Rent,” DJ Fresh asked the Kaya Breakfast team whether finances are still a big factor in relationships.
“Nowadays on the internet, you read people talking about ‘a man must’ or ‘indoda must’. Is money still a big deal?” he asked.
Juliet Joseph noted that money has always been important, pointing out that historically, men would be asked how many cattle or livestock they owned before marriage.
Mpho Maboi blamed men for setting the expectation that their role is to provide.
“Men started this whole thing. It’s your fault because you are the ones who said ‘ubuhle nendoda zinkomo zayo’ and you went around telling us that your duty is to provide. Now that it’s catching up with you, we are seen as the problem? No. You guys told us for centuries that your duty is to provide, so yes, finances do matter.”
“It’s all good and well to say ‘let’s just do our thing’, mara I need to know that when I say we’re going to Italy, you won’t be a parcel,” Maboi added.
Thato, who was unemployed for two months before joining Kaya 959, left the room in stitches when he jokingly shared how he handled being jobless in his own household.
“I was that guy. I would wake up at 6 AM and pretend I was doing something in the garden until everyone left,” he said to roaring laughter from the team.
Does “no romance without finance” still ring true?
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