Unrepentant but revived Zimbabwean badboy Rockford “Roki” Josphats has
dumped his dancer wife Melody “Chocolate” Musekiwa two years after the
two moved in together.
The two have a one-year-old baby girl named Dawn. While many thought
that the bed-hopping father of five “official” children had turned the
corner, the singer is said to have returned to his old bad habits.
Insiders say the artiste, who has been “bedding” other women in front of
Melo as Melody is affectionately known, was set to move out of their
Waterfalls home last week, leaving the dancer to care for their toddler.
he sources said it was a pity that Roki was now leaving one of the only people who stood by him during tough times.
“When the chips were down and no one was around for Roki, this girl was
there. All the pretty girls had run away because Roki was struggling to
make ends meet, now that things are better, he dumps her,” said a source
close to both Roki and Melo.
Before Roki went to Big Brother he hardly held shows and was living off pittances from recording underground artistes.
His children were staying with his mother in Seke communal areas while
the few shows he held would flop time and again. It is during that time
when his life had shrunk that Roki started co-habiting with Melo and
their union was blessed with a baby girl.
He even confirmed then, in an interview with this publication, that Melo had been with him through “thick and thin”.
“Melo is a sweet girl and has been with me through everything. When the
last woman in my life threw me out of her life, I decided to move on.
Suddenly I realised that I only had Melo beside me and everyone else
was gone,” he said at the time. He even went on to name his daughter
Dawn, saying because she signalled the beginning of new things — “she is
like the bringer of light, hope and a new day”.
He later represented Zimbabwe in the Big Brother StarGame where even
though he flopped, he came back rejuvenated to resuscitate his waning
music career.
Last week, the 27-year-old super dad confirmed that his relationship
with Melo had irretrievably broken down, but was quick to add that she
would continue working as one of his dancers.
Said Roki: “I have good relationships with all my baby mamas and, as you
know, I have a perfect mutually beneficial working relationship with
my first wife (Pauline Gundidza). This will be no different, Melo and I
will continue working together in the band so that she can take care of
herself.
“We have been living under the same roof for a while now, but the truth
is our love life has been dead for some time. We had to stick together
for our toddler. I needed to make sure that she was at least a year old
before parting ways.”
On the issue of moving out of the house he was staying in with Melo, the
baby and his cousin Discord, Roki said the move arose out of the need
to strategically position his studio.
“The place we have been operating from was not good for business. We are
moving to a place that is by the road in Mainway Meadows and that
should be strategic for the studio. In the meantime, I will be living
there, but I intend to move to different place later on,” he said.
The super dad, sometimes also referred to as the Evil Genius, vowed to
ensure that Melo would have a roof over her head. However, Melo, the
latest of Roki’s victims, was by Thursday still frantically trying to
secure accommodation.
“Who told you about this?” asked Melo, before threatening to hang up the
phone. However, she later warmed up and opened up on what she called
her “four months in hell”. Roki was evicted from Big Brother on June 19
but came back to Zimbabwe two weeks later.
“Ever since Roki returned from Big Brother, things have not been the
same at home. He just started accusing me of a lot of things and was
never as nice as he was before he left. After a little while, he started
dating girls that I know and doing stuff with them even in my
presence,” complained Melo.
She said the singer’s actions denigrated her as a wife and it made their friends and colleagues despise her.
“He has been embarrassing me in front of our friends. I think it’s the
Big Brother fame that is causing this. When he went to Big Brother, he
was a loving husband and father, now life seems to be all about him,”
protested the dancer, famed for her waist wriggling and raunchy dance
moves at her estranged husband’s shows.
Melo said she just wished there was something else she could do to take care of herself and her baby besides dancing.
“It is sad because I have to stick around someone who has hurt me badly.
I have no choice because I need to keep on dancing for him so that I
can have a roof over my head and food and clothes for my little baby,”
said Melo.
Roki maintains that there is nothing wrong with the breakdown of his marriage with the dancer.
“I have been called a lot of names and things in my life, but I have
been very responsible lately. I actually believe I changed for the
better because, unlike my previous splits, this one has been less
dramatic.
“You see, when adults break up, it is different. We have been living
under the same roof and she is the one who takes care of all of my
children. There is no way I can let my children be homeless or go
without food. So I will ensure that they are all safe, including Melo,”
said Roki.
The Chidzoka hitmaker would not divulge why they had parted ways or
whether he had paid lobola for the dancer, preferring instead to talk
about his upcoming DVD album and single titled Zuva neZuva to be
released soon.
Melo, however, confirmed that Roki had never bothered to “solidify” the relationship by paying lobola.
Roki owns state-of-the-art studio equipment and PA system. He has
officially fathered five children with three different women, but
unconfirmed reports put the number of his offspring at about 10.
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