You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
Drum English|28 November 2019
She’s gone from poverty to living the high life – and Real Housewives of Joburg’s Lethabo Mathatho says there’s plenty more she wants to achieve
Qhama Dayile
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!

THE blonde beauty pulls up at our offices in a burgundy Range Rover, carrying Louis Vuitton and Gucci tote bags bulging with clothes from her favourite designers. “This is how I roll, honey,” she says, breaking into booming laughter. With her bold and boisterous nature,

Lethabo “Lejoy” Mathatho (34) has always known she was born for the limelight. Now she’s breathing new life into the second season of The Real Housewives of Johannesburg.

“I’ve always wanted to be on the show. I love the glitz because I grew up the complete opposite,” Lethabo tells DRUM.

Growing up in Limpopo with her single mom and two siblings, Lethabo had very little. She knows what it’s like to skip school because she didn’t have sanitary towels. “I knew early in life that I don’t want live like that. I want the fake hair, the lashes, the cars, the big house.

“And if you think I’m doing too much, honey, you haven’t seen anything yet,” she says.

It’s this confident and candid attitude that’s caused her co-stars’ claws to come out on the hit show, but Lethabo is unapologetic about spilling tea on wealthy socialites. “With me, what you see is what you get. I am free, respectful and very outspoken,” she says.

“I just don’t get along with people who disrespect others and who are insensitive. Christall [Kay] tends to be insensitive to people’s personal issues, like the time she called babies made through artificial insemination ‘fake children’ because they weren’t created the conventional way,” she continues.

“I called her out because being on TV means you have a responsibility to teach people – not just entertain.”

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