Afrotainment music producer Prince Bulo is accused of being a romance scammer after he allegedly swindled his girlfriend and popular chef Sinethemba Mbuyazi and dumped her.
Bulo allegedly tricked Mbuyazi into paying for his rent, buy him groceries, give him pocket money, and made her give him her top-of-the-range iPhone which he is refusing to return.
To top it off, Bulo allegedly faked a letter purportedly to be from his landlord in January demanding rent.
When she could only help with half of the rent, he allegedly dumped Mbuyazi, who is popularly known as Sne Cooks.
Now Mbuyazi has unleashed her lawyers on the music producer, who slapped him with a letter of demand for repayments of some of her expenditure throughout their one-year relationship.
The letter of demand, which Sunday World has seen, gives the musician 14 days from last week Thursday to pay R22 628 to Mbuyazi’s FNB account to avoid court action.
Reads the letter in part: “We are advised that you have failed or ignored requests to make payment despite our client reaching out to you on several times through messages sent to you via WhatsApp.
“We are therefore left with no other choice [but] to demand, as we hereby do, that you make payment of the amount due and payment of R22 628 within 14 days.”
On Tuesday, Bulo had not made any payment or contacted Mbuyazi. Instead, he continued posting his music studio sessions on his Facebook page.
Mbuyazi said she felt used by the muso, who gave her every excuse to get money from her, including alleging he had a fallout with his boss DJ Tira and needed the money urgently.
“We met on Facebook where he saw me on my cooking page … I took the Facebook comment [he made], posted it on Instagram and tagged him and his friends,” she said.
“He commented within a few minutes, asked if I am still abroad, and gave me his WhatsApp number.
“I texted him and then he immediately started professing his love for me. A week into the relationship, he started telling me his problems.
“At first he said he was getting kicked out of his apartment and [that] he was having a fallout with his boss DJ Tira. He started telling me all his problems.”
Mbuyazi said the first amount he sent to Bulo was a R4 000 loan in September, a month into their relationship.
“When he went out with his friends, he would ask that I send him money so that he can be able to pay for the bill for his friends … I was just helping my partner because he was financially stretched.”
She reached a boiling point in January when, out of the blue, he asked how much she had.
“He forged an e-mail pretending to be [that] his landlord demanding rent from December to January. He wanted a loan of R23 000. I told him that I don’t have, I gave him R10 000.”
That was when everything went wrong, said Mbuyazi, noting that Bulo started ignoring her calls and asking her not to text her.
The US-based cook said before she left South Africa in January, Bulo had asked that she borrow him her phone.
After struggling to reach him to ask him to pay back the money, Mbuyazi took to her Facebook page which boasts over 70 000 followers to lambast Bulo.
Bulo was not immediately available for comment, however, Sunday World has heard a voice note where he tells Mbuyazi to delete the post.
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