‘I skirt with danger all the time, it’s fun’ – Phat Joe

by Bongiwe Mati

Majota Khambule better known as Phat Joe became the second celebrity to grace Thembinkosi Mrototo’s hot seat on his Showmax interview show Unfollowed.

It became clear in the interview that both media personalities had met their match soon after the conversations started.

The former UCT student shared that he thought he would DJ and tour the world after Thembinkosi asked why he chose deejaying and music when UCT offered so much more. He added, “deejaying and music was just an unstoppable train.”

Thembinkosi addressed some of the things the media personality has gotten in trouble and some suspended for in his radio career. These include remarks he made about down syndrome condition; comments he made on the Caster Semenya’s global gender humiliation case and the UKZN fees must fall students’ comments.

Correcting the host who implied that the former Real Gobhoza TV show host had been fired on radio a few times, Joe said Kaya FM was the only radio station that fired him after the Caster Semenya’s topic. He also added that he wasn’t given a proper reason why he was sacked.

Joe’s comments on Caster’s case after she was humiliated abroad and made to undergo tests to prove that she was indeed a woman were:

“Does this mean at this point she has never had a period? Let’s say she has testes; does it mean she’s a man or woman?”

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