Gcina Mkhize opens up about eviction battle, betrayal, and industry blacklisting
Award-winning actress Gcina Mkhize has opened up about her ongoing battle to keep her family home in Mondeor, south of Johannesburg, revealing the extent of the trauma she’s endured over the past year.
Speaking on The Voice with Palesa podcast, the veteran performer said she still lives in the property, despite repeated attempts to force her out, and claims a mafia-like syndicate is trying to sell the house without her consent.
“I am still at the house that is my children’s and my home. Where will I go?” she said, clearly frustrated. “The South African law has failed me and my kids so much; they dismiss everything.”
Mkhize first trended several months after posting videos online, claiming she was illegally evicted.
Since then, she has continued to occupy the house with her daughters, even as the windows are routinely smashed. She now covers them with plastic just to keep the elements out.
Back in September, she revealed that she and her daughters were sharing the contested home with two unknown men.
The men, she claims, were connected to a man who says he bought the house at an auction after she allegedly defaulted on bond payments.
Still, Mkhize refuses to leave, insisting she’s waiting for a proper eviction order to be served.
“I still say there is a syndicate that deals with stealing people’s homes. The police are involved, people from the bank and the courts. I might be wrong, but it is what I believe,” she added.
Now 52, the actress says her accolades no longer hold meaning for her, especially after the harsh treatment she’s received from the industry.
“I grappled with it in the beginning. It did not make sense to me that with the work that I have done, the industry would still treat me the way that it did. I felt discarded… like someone was trying to punish me or being spiteful towards me. It got to a point where I started questioning my talent.”
Mkhize claimed she later discovered that someone in a position of influence had told production houses not to cast her.
“I was not to be cast until I come back and apologise to those people. The bad thing is that that person is going to wait forever. I will not apologise to anyone.”
In a heartbreaking twist, she also shared that she has been a victim of witchcraft in the entertainment industry, something she never expected would come from someone she once considered family.
“It came from someone I used to sit and laugh with… someone I saw as a sister.”
