Gospel singer Xoliswa Kwinana arrested for GBV

Estranged wife lays charge, alleges regular assaults

- Ngwako Malatji

Award-winning gospel musician Xoliswa Kwinana was arrested on Wednesday by the police after his estranged wife opened a case of assault with grievous bodily harm against him in Cape Town.

Kwinana's estranged wife Ndikhona Hlatika opened the case two years after he allegedly spat on her face and assaulted her on separate occasions in a series of gender-based violence episodes in their marital home between 2021 and 2022.

She opened the case after separating from him and obtaining a protection order against the singer last year.

In the protection order, which she obtained at Wynberg-Magistrate's Court in Cape Town in January last year, Hlatika said the gospel musician assaulted her when she was three months pregnant.

She said she sustained injuries to her arm and face during the alleged incident.