The Soil’s Ntsika Ngxanga On Making And Losing R350 000 A Month

One of the members of the multi-award winning Acapella group The Soil, Ntsika Ngxanga revealed in an interview with Rams Mabote on Metro FM how they managed to earn themselves an amount of R350 000 after they dropped their first hit songs. The singer also spoke of he used his money recklessly, lost all of it and got his wake-up call.

“I was still renting a flat. Come December, my main account had R308,000 in it and I remember partying up a storm. When the 30 days elapsed I woke up with like R7,000. It was tax season as well. With tax they don’t calculate what you now have they calculate what you always had, and I was found wanting. I had to now borrow from my brother and I realised this is not the life,” he explained.

The amount of 350 000 was not only a once off salary but a monthly income, he admitted how they are making a lot of money through music.”We are making a lot of money. The trick is  how you maintain it. I remember just after 2012 when we really started racking it up. In a month, individually, we would have no less than R350,000 a month as a salary. You are talking about kids here who just came from varsity and came from Soweto, which is a place where we didn’t have a lot of money and we were starting to make money our parents couldn’t even dream about,” said Ngxanga.

He added on his statement about how how he feels the desperate desire of fame and fortune mislead people. “People force fame and fortune to be related, because with fortune, they think they must do everything under the umbrella of fame. People go out there to prove themselves using flashy cars and misleading the youth. We have to breed a different kind of millionaire. We can’t all be at Taboo partying up a storm. We could be at home with our wives and family,” he said.