{"id":53539,"date":"2026-03-22T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=53539"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:04:16","slug":"dumisani-dlamini-breaks-silence-doja-cat-deadbeat-dad-mom-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/22\/dumisani-dlamini-breaks-silence-doja-cat-deadbeat-dad-mom-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Doja Cat &#8216;brainwashed&#8217; by mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dumisani Dlamini \u2013 the father of US pop star Doja Cat \u2013 has broken his silence on long-running allegations he is a \u201cdeadbeat dad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This comes shortly after he made an unexpected stop at her first-ever South African concert \u2013 the Global Citizen Move Afrika concert at Pretoria\u2019s SunBet Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Doja was born in 1995 in the US to Dumisani and Deborah Sawyer, an American woman. He fathered another child, son Raman Dlamini, before returning to SA.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dumisani-dlamini-breaks-silence-on-doja-cat-relationship\">DUMISANI DLAMINI BREAKS SILENCE ON DOJA CAT RELATIONSHIP<\/h2>\n<p>In an Instagram post, Dumisani Dlami addressed widespread speculation that he abandoned his daughter, Doja Cat, real name Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini.<\/p>\n<p>The Yizo Yizo and Sarafina actor claimed he decided to speak up to share his version of what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI want to tell you the facts. I\u2019ve worked hard to make my name, my reputation. I\u2019ve worked hard, I\u2019ve fought for this country\u2026 with Sarafina. I have been sad, but no one knows why\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dumisani touched on meeting Doja Cat\u2019s mother, Deborah Sawyer, in the US.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cYou can\u2019t be in a foreign country and find a woman, a white woman with three kids. And then you make two kids with her. And then she becomes so lucky that she gives birth to a superstar. She gives information to the superstar that her father is not a good man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about a white, Jewish woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI\u2019m not going to be used by a white woman with three kids. I was feeding those kids with the money from Sarafina. I love my kids [and] I took care of her kids. Three white kids who hated me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dumisani Dlamini revealed that Deborah came to South Africa, where she met his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat white woman brainwashed my baby, that l had left her. I never left my kid. She played the cards, because of being influenced by her mother. She came to South Africa. She\u2019s got power to see me, and she faked it.<\/p>\n<p>Dumisani added that he was \u201ca man of integrity, respect and love\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He has since deleted the Instagram post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t        <iframe title=\"bj_embed\" class=\"dx-embed\" id=\"dxIframe-0\" style=\"width: 100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tough-childhood\">\u2018TOUGH CHILDHOOD\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>In an interview with IRL podcaster Angie Martinez last year, Doja Cat gave her fans a glimpse of her private life.<\/p>\n<p>The mixed-race artist revealed she was one of five children, born to her mother, Deborah Sawyer,\u00a0 who starred in her recent music video, Gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI had a tough childhood\u2026.Growing up with a single mother was a hard thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could never\u2026.She is incredible, the strongest mother. She taught me a lot of things and made me in some ways stronger.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" alt=\"doja cat dumisani dlamini\" class=\"wp-image-2393571\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Doja-Cat-brainwashed-by-mom.jpg?resize=640%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Doja-Cat-brainwashed-by-mom.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Doja-Cats-mom-made-an-appearance-in-her-recent-music-video-768x544.jpg.optimal.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Doja-Cats-mom-made-an-appearance-in-her-recent-music-video-750x531.jpg.optimal.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Doja-Cats-mom-made-an-appearance-in-her-recent-music-video-960x680.jpg.optimal.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Doja-Cats-mom-made-an-appearance-in-her-recent-music-video-640x453.jpg.optimal.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Doja-Cats-mom-made-an-appearance-in-her-recent-music-video-255x181.jpg.optimal.jpg 255w\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Doja Cat and her mother, Dumisani Dlamini, in recent music video.<br \/>Images via YouTube screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Without mentioning her dad, Dumisani Dlamini,\u00a0 Doja Cat said her mother had \u201cno help\u201d raising her kids.<\/p>\n<p>Doja claimed that her mother was her biggest fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is so supportive and so proud. And she tells me every day\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Doja #Cat #brainwashed #mom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumisani Dlamini \u2013 the father of US pop star Doja Cat \u2013 has broken his silence on long-running allegations he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53541,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53539\/revisions\/53541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}