“People often think ‘Sithelo’ is my stage name, but it isn’t. It means ‘fruits’. My mom, a priest, named me after the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, which are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Instead of picking just one, she chose the collective and named me Sithelo. My mom gives the best names; she named all my children too, each with a unique name with weighty meanings behind them. My sister’s name, Zekhethelo, is also different and rare. In full, it means intombi zokhethelo.
It’s weird how I joined The Masked Singer SA. Anele (Mdoda) often calls me and we speak a lot of gibberish together. Then out of the blue one day she called and asked if I had watched The Masked Singer before.…
