Derrick Majaivana says he has been left crushed after his mother came clean and revealed that he was not the son of the great Lovemore Maj...
Derrick Majaivana says he has been left crushed after his
mother came clean and revealed that he was not the son of the great Lovemore
Majaivana.
“So here is the bigger shocker, and this painful, I have
lived with the wrong clan for 40 years. My father’s real name is Abel Khanyi.”
“He (Khanyi) is no more. No one knows where he was laid to
rest or if ever he had other kids. If they are out there, I want to reach out
to them. He was working at the NRZ as a train driver or something. I’m not
entirely sure but using this platform I can get answers to my questions,” he
said.
When it was first reported in The Sunday News early this year
that Derrick might not be Majaivana’s child, he dismissed the story. Relatives
said Majaivana wanted the story out there as he did not want Derrick, who was
said to be a drunkard, to soil the family name.
“I called my mother because I was confused about everything
that was going on. So she travelled all the way to South Africa to tell me in
person what transpired and that’s when I found out the truth. As a child I
never knew anything. I was raised by good loving parents. This is what I
thought up until the day that the story came out,” he said.
“I’m the first born and from what I hear my parents were
lovers. I don’t know what transpired between them. I have respect for the old
man for raising me. I never lacked anything when I was growing up.
Even when I started my musical journey I called him when he
was already in the States and he wished me well. So to me if there was an issue
to be raised frankly I think a normal, wise person would use the proper
channels to address it. This is better than telling the whole world that I’m
not his child,” he said.
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