12 Nov 2020

Idol's Luyolo Yiba on his new single and people asking him for money in his DMs after his win

Siya Tsewu

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Luyolo Yiba has released a new single

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Winning Idols South Africa came with fame, fortune, friends and the strangest thing of all - people sliding into his DMs to ask for money because they didn't qualify for the R350 Covid-19 relief fund.

Idols 2019 winner Luyolo Yiba is taking it all in his stride though.

“It was the weirdest thing,” he laughs.

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