Inside Koffi Olomide’s Concert Cancellation Story In SA
Inside Koffi Olomide’s Concert Cancellation Story In SA – South Africa was ready, fans were geared up for his performance, but two of South African venues have cancelled concerts by Congolese singer Koffi Olomide.
This is a result of being convicted of statutory rape with one of his previous dancers when she was 15.
He was scheduled to perform at the Gallagher Convention Centre outside Johannesburg on the 28th of June at the Shimmy Beach Club in Cape Town two days later. The 62-year-old, whose real name is Antoine Agbepa Mumba will no longer be gracing our stages.
Well, this conclusion came about when opponents initiated a social media campaign to put a halt to the concerts taking place on the soils of Mzansi resulting in his recent sentencing.
According to Tshisalive, this is what he said – “Kindly be advised the Koffi Olomide show… will not be taking place,” Gallagher Convention Centre chief executive Charles Wilson said in a statement on Wednesday.
The event organisers that initially released a statement was Shimmy Beach – “made the decision last week not to host the Koffi Olomide event that was being run by an outside promoter,” the club said on Twitter on Tuesday.
So, during the month of March, a French court brought the judgement of a two-year suspended prison sentence to Olomide following a trial that he failed to attend.
Also, it absolved him of assault and kidnapping charges and the sexual assault of three other women, this was said to take place at his home, close to Paris 2002 and 2006.
This is not the first time, Olomide has been imprisoned in DR Congo in 2016 for striking one of his dancers and was handed a suspended three-month prison sentence, also, in 2012 for beating his producer.
It said he is also wanted by Zambian police for again beating a Rwandan photo-journalist in Lusaka in the year 2012.
Written by: Aphiwe Theodorah Mvinjelwa
