READ | Die Antwoord reacts to exploitation allegations
Du Preez also lived with them in Los Angeles for a few months, but returned to South Africa as he was missing his biological family.
They also paid another poor family in Johannesburg to use their 12-year-old son in their projects and had one biological daughter of their own.Īt various times over the past decade, all four children had shared homes with Jones and Du Toit in Cape Town and Johannesburg. They adopted Du Preez and his minor sister, now 14, under foster parenting agreements and had used them as actors and props in a number of their very successful shows, albums and videos like "I Fink U Freeky" and "Ugly Boy". In response to a detailed list of accusations against them, Die Antwoord's only response through their agent Scumeck Sabottka from MCT-Agentur in Berlin, was: "Die Antwoord don't agree with Tokkie's statements."ĭie Antwoord, who had signed multimillion-rand record deals since their breakthrough onto the global music scene in 2010, based their brand on imitating the so-called Zef lifestyle and culture of poor white suburbs like Vrededorp, and the numbers gangs of the Cape Flats. The girl now refuses to see her foster parents.