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Can't act or sing': The Wife', Bongo Maffin fans troll Stoan Seate

21/03/2023

Can't act or sing': The Wife', Bongo Maffin fans troll Stoan Seate You're a terrible actor and musician': The Wife and and Bongo Maffin fans take jabs at actor and musician Stoan Seate.

by Rae Seleme

21-03-2023 08:51

in Entertainment

Bongo Maffin musician and The Wife actor Stoan Seate. Image supplied

The Wife and Bongo Maffin fans took to social media on Monday, 20 March to drag musician and actor Stoan Seate, who plays Sefako in the Showmax telenovela.

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ALSO READ:Naledi Chirwa drags Stoan Seate following F*ck EFF' comment

THE WIFE' FANS: YOU'RE A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE ACTOR' The TV presenter Stoan Seate, who plays Naledi Montho's (Gaisang Noge) husband Sefako in the third season of the Showmax hit telenovela got cooked on Twitter by viewers of The Wife and fans of Bongo Maffin music group

The trolling began after the actor-musician tweeted F*CK EFF' which didn't sit well with South Africans, who supported the national shutdown.

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See more reactions from Twitter:

@Shwe: When I saw Stoan on The Wife, I was shocked. His acting really is terrible.

@Mokgadi_SA_: But truth be told Stoan is terrible on The Wife extremely so.

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@haphan_billy: The way Stoan is getting some beating he'll surly come later and say his account was hacked!

@Lungii_T: That character bao fileng yona (they gave you) on The Wife is not by mistake o bhari (you're an idiot) even when you're not acting.

The TV personality Stoan Seate admitted in an interview with Sunday World that he never auditioned for his role in The Wife.

ALSO READ:Meet five NEW stars, OLD faces in The Wife' season three

STOAN SEATE GETS DRAGGED BY BONGO MAFFIN FANS The Wife actor Stoan Seate, who began his music career as a member of Bongo Maffin began trending after EFF member of parliament Naledi Chirwa dragged him following his F*CK EFF comment.

Chirwa responded to Seate's F*ck EFF tweet by saying: A little tender in the North West makes you swear at us for no reason? Fuck you le wena Stoan. Ebile you can't act .

Another tweep @LedwabaThabangt added that the musician Seate also can't rap or sing or whatever he calls it.

@EVILewanaqN: What I hated the most is that he always managed to get his spoken-word weak bars sandwiched in-between the star performances of every record, so you couldn't even skip the song when it got to his part.

@sheldon_cameron: Not Stoan s tweet pushing more numbers than streams for his music.

ALSO READ: I didn't audition': Musician Stoan Seate on joining The Wife'

ALSO READ: Uzalo' actor Wiseman Mncube replaces Bonko Khoza in The Wife'

We Stopped Watching The Wife Because Of You What A Horrible Actor. https://t.co/LBXIbKk9OG

RIPKiernanForbes (@FulufheloNem_) March 20, 2023

@stainedglasstv_ next time please don't ever give him a chance. He can't act . We have thousand of better actors in

Mr Cooper (@khuphukilem) March 20, 2023

But truth be told Stoan is terrible on The Wife extremely so

Mokgadi_SA_ (@Mokgadi_SA_) March 20, 2023

When I saw Stoan on the Wife, I was shocked. His acting really is terrible

S. (@Shwe____) March 20, 2023

he didn't audition. Bamo tsere straight

Chris Jaqen H ghar (@ChrisAleksander) March 20, 2023

That character bao fileng yona on the wife is not by mistake o bhari even when you're not acting https://t.co/idtstoChgK

IG: Lungile__ (@Lungii_T) March 20, 2023

A little tender in the North West makes you swear at us for no reason? Fuck you le wena Stoan. Ebile you can't act. https://t.co/4rFC9uPFza

Ma'Chirwa (@NalediMpungose_) March 20, 2023

That character bao fileng yona on the wife is not by mistake o bhari even when you're not acting https://t.co/idtstoChgK

IG: Lungile__ (@Lungii_T) March 20, 2023

Stoan Tweets are doing better than his Music Catalogue pic.twitter.com/Dh6ugrIBzM

Sidwell (@MalumSid) March 20, 2023

The other three Bongo Maffin members every time after recording a banger and then Stoan comes in with his Setswana slam poetry verse: pic.twitter.com/7T43ITYVwQ

Nqanawe Cebolenkosi Shangase (@EVILewanaqN) March 20, 2023

What I hated the most is that he always managed to get his spoken-word weak bars sandwiched in-between the star performances of every record, so you couldn t even skip the song when it got to his part

Nqanawe Cebolenkosi Shangase (@EVILewanaqN) March 20, 2023

Thandiswa would ALWAYS open on a high note. Speedy would take the baton and RUN with it and just as you re waiting for Jah Seed to switch things up enter the blemish of the group to just stink up and slowed down the whole record.

Why did they never close with him??

Nqanawe Cebolenkosi Shangase (@EVILewanaqN) March 20, 2023

I took his verses like the songs commercial break but a popular ad break with a wack jingle you still sang along to, like Ellerines or Joshua Door.

Loyiso BLoQue (@LoyisoBLoQue) March 20, 2023

His raps had absolutely nothing to do with the lyrics of the overall song

. (@mots0o) March 20, 2023

You actually said what most of us always though but never dared say, we used to press fast forward when his verse comes on.

AW (@AWylding) March 20, 2023

FUCK Stoan!!! pic.twitter.com/PvDIGgIx5S

Bl^CKrose (@Chabedi_Chabeli) March 20, 2023

Can he even call himself a musician pic.twitter.com/jPCgIW8vGK

prince mayisela (@nk6230) March 20, 2023

If Stoan is this childish, 30 years later. Wayenjani in his prime? pic.twitter.com/bigxkEwpKH

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