{"id":54296,"date":"2026-03-29T06:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=54296"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:52:06","slug":"rigged-thandeka-tshabalala-lieyma-pantsi-big-brother-mzansi-bazozowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/29\/rigged-thandeka-tshabalala-lieyma-pantsi-big-brother-mzansi-bazozowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Thandeka on Liema&#8217;s &#8216;Big Brother Mzansi&#8217; win"},"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>\u00a0<em>Big Brother Mzansi: Bazozwa<\/em> runner-up\u00a0Thandeka Tshabalala\u00a0claims that the show was rigged after Lieyma Pantsi beat her to winning season six of the reality series.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-thandeka-claims-it-was-rigged-from-inside\"><strong>THANDEKA CLAIMS IT WAS \u2018RIGGED FROM INSIDE\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Thandeka Tshabalala came in second place on <em>Big Brother Mzansi: Bazozwa<\/em> and Lieyma Pantsi took home the R2 million. Now, Thandeka sat down with MacG and Sol Phenduka on the infamous <em>Podcast and Chill<\/em> to talk about her thoughts and feelings. She claimed that some scenes were cut and she was painted as the villain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the truth. To come out and find out that some of the things were cut, and I was made to be the villain, and then uLiema is obviously, like dainty, dainty,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Thandeka went on to claim that the show was rigged from the inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s fine. But it was rigged from the inside, the punishments they handed down. Come on now, everybody is serving a punishment, but I\u2019m the one who\u2019s wearing amaunicorns, etcetera. You\u2019re obviously making me a target in the house, but I don\u2019t know, maybe for shock value,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-macg-we-do-not-recognise-her\"><strong>MACG: \u2018WE DO NOT RECOGNISE HER\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The podcaster, MacG agreed with Thandeka saying it was clear to him that production was favouring Liema. He then went on to \u201cdenounce\u201d Lieyma, saying that they do not recognise her. She continues to call herself \u201cBazozwa Queen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic service announcement. As the spokesperson of the chillers nation, we would like to denounce the current win of \u2018Big Brother\u2019. We do not recognise her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of fact, production, wherever you are, report yourself to the nearest police station for crime against humanity. What was done on Sunday should never happen on our watch,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>MacG is not just a spectator of the show. His alcoholic beverage, Chillers Punch, was one of the sponsors this season. <\/p>\n<p>Lieyma also took to Instagram to share her excitement after winning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA movement a nation wide victory for all of us straight From the house\u2026 to the streets. \ud83c\udf38\ud83c\udf38\ud83c\udf38\ud83c\udf38<br \/>This is what love, unity, and belief look like. Liema did it. WE did it.thank you LLF family and everyone for showing up &amp; celebrating Liema Pantsi what a journey it was \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83c\udfa5\u00a0@bigbromzansi,\u201d read the post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWOw_P6jL5T\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><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#Thandeka #Liemas #Big #Brother #Mzansi #win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Big Brother Mzansi: Bazozwa runner-up\u00a0Thandeka Tshabalala\u00a0claims that the show was rigged after Lieyma Pantsi beat her to winning season six&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54296","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\/54296","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=54296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54298,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions\/54298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}