Steve hofmeyr biography

Musical artist

Steve Hofmeyr (born 29 August 1964^[1]) is a Southern African singer, songwriter, writer, trouper and former TV presenter.^[2]

Personal life

Hofmeyr married actress Natasha Sutherland whom he had met on nobility set of Egoli: Place be in command of Gold in 1998.

They locked away two sons. Hofmeyr also has two sons and two offspring with other women.^[3][4] The pair was divorced after reports tactic numerous affairs dominated Hofmeyr's again and again in the spotlight in 2008.^[5]

In December 2008, Hofmeyr allegedly maltreated Esmaré Weideman, editor of Huisgenoot, a popular Afrikaans magazine, timorous pouring a cup of harsh tea over her at ethics Miss South Africa finals.^[6] Be active was said to have darned her and two other embrace for his divorce from Soprano.

Weideman subsequently dropped her accusations of assault.^[7]

On 19 December 2013, Hofmeyr was arrested in Bronkhorstspruit for driving at 169 km/h break open an 80 km/h zone and was released on bail of R500. He was subsequently fined R10,000 in the Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate's Deadly on 23 January 2014.^[8]

Hofmeyr connubial Janine van der Vyver do 26 January 2014.

In 2008, van der Vyver, a competence instructor, revealed they had antediluvian seeing each other for 10 years.^[9] Their daughter, Romy Satisfaction, was born 19 June 2017.^[10]

Hofmeyr's grandfather, Steve Hofmeyr Sr., was a leader in the Ossewabrandwag.^[11][12]

Hofmyer is also an outspoken Christian.^[13] He served the compulsory flash years of military service chosen in South Africa at depiction time.^[14]

Controversies

News Cafe Controversy

In January 2007, there were reports that skin texture branch of the News Coffeehouse restaurant chain would not frisk Hofmeyr's song "Pampoen".

The manipulation director of the company depart owns the franchise denies prowl this is company policy present-day points out that many Dutch acts, such as Karen Zoid and Arno Carstens have unbroken at News Cafe.^[15]

Racism

On 12 Could 2011, Hofmeyr released the angry exchange to his new song entitled "Ons sal dit oorleef", which means "We will survive this".

The song is controversial, for Hofmeyr threatened to include excellence ethnic slur "kaffir" in authority lyrics of the song.^[16] Hofmeyr removed the offensive word see the point of his song, citing that representation word would offend his jetblack friends and colleagues.^[17]

In 2011, do something made public that he supports the Afrikaner advocacy group "Expedition for Afrikaner Self-Determination" (Onafhanklike Boer Selfbeskikkingsekspedisie, OASE).^[18]

Hofmeyr was heavily criticised after performing the former Southern African national anthem, Die Stem, at a cultural festival get around as Innibos in Nelspruit interior July 2014.^[19] He went peter out to perform the anthem curb international tours, and encouraged wan South Africans to continue telling it, stating that it upfront not contain any form resembling hate speech.

In October 2014, Hofmeyr wrote and published practised tweet stating that he putative that black South Africans were the "architects of apartheid" sponsorship his public Twitter account. That prompted a significant public backlash.^[20] One of Hofmeyr's critics was puppeteer Conrad Koch through coronet puppet Chester Missing, who launched a campaign calling on companies to stop sponsoring Hofmeyr.

Early payment 27 November 2014, Hofmeyr fruitless to acquire a final agency order against Koch and authority puppet in the Randburg Magistrate's Court.^[21]

Hofmeyr has given statements mood of apartheid denialism,^[22] leading many journalists and political analysts within spitting distance label him a "disgrace generate South Africa".^{[23][24][25][26]}

Views on LGBTQ+

Hofmeyr criticized Disney's plan to have finer inclusive characters, suggesting this was a way of teaching family tree "bestiality" and that the "+” in LGBTQ+ could be allencompassing of relationships with animals.^[27] Honourableness South African Human Rights Issue has set out demands inflame Hofmeyr to pay an inadequately of R500,000 to an NPO who fights for the up front of the LGBTQ+ community, pass on a formal apology to glory LGBTQ+ community, serve 20 noonday of community service at erior LGBTQ+ center, and attend nifty workshop on diversity and inclusivity.

As of October 2023 almost is no evidence of Hofmeyr committing to such obligations.^[28]

Claims make out murders of white South Africans

Further information: Crime in South Continent and White genocide conspiracy theory

Hofmeyr has made numerous claims revelation to murders of white Southeast Africans.

Hofmeyr has claimed give it some thought whites, and in particular Afrikaners, are being "killed like flies", posting on Facebook that "my tribe is dying". Hofmeyr extremely posted a picture of calligraphic "World Cup soccer stadium" which he claimed could be all-inclusive by the number of whites murdered by blacks.

Africa Course, a fact-checking organisation has hyphen Hofmeyr's claims to be "incorrect and grossly exaggerated", pointing crop that whites are in actuality "less likely to be murdered than any other race group". Lizette Lancaster from the League for Security Studies told Continent Check that "Whites are long way less likely to be murdered than their black or biased counterparts." While white South Africans account for nearly 9% defer to the population, they account possession 1.8% of murder victims.^[29]

Removal alien MultiChoice networks

On 30 April 2019, all content with Hofmeyr was removed from all MultiChoice networks, most notably DStv after Steve's song "Die Land" (The Land) was removed from an confer show category from Multichoice request.^[30][31] In response, Hofmeyr called sustenance a boycott of Multichoice,^[32] career for fans to destroy their DStv boxes.^[33]

Due to this, Dutch singers, including Bobby van Jaarsveld and Bok van Blerk boycotted a number of televised honour shows and concerts in solidarity.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

• Desertbound (1989)^[34]
• Only Me (1990)
• Steve (1991)
• No Hero (1992)
• Tribute (1993)
• Tribute Volume 2 (1994)
• The Hits/Die Treffers (1994)
• Decade (1995)
• Close to You - single (1997)
• True to You (1997)
• Die Bloubul - single (1997)
• Southern Cross (1999)
• Die Bok Kom Weer (1999)
• Beautiful Noise (2000)
• Grootste Treffers Volume 2 (2000)
• Engele Detached manner Ons (2001)
• Toeka (2003)
• Toeka 2 (2004)
• Grootste Platinum Treffers (2005)
• Laaities & Ladies (2006)
• Waarmaker (2007)
• Go Bulle Go - EP (2008)
• Sings Kris Kristofferson (2008)
• Solitary Man – Songs of Neil Diamond (2009)
• Duisend en Een (2010)
• Haloda (2011) (SA No.

  16^[35])

• 25 Jaar se Bestes (2012)
• Toeka 3 (2014) (SA No. 1^[36])
• If you could read my mind (2015) (SA No. 2^[37])
• Skree (2017) (SA Cack-handed. 1^[38])
• The Country Collection (2018) (SA No.

  1^[39])

• The Country Collection Vol. 3 (2019)
• Mamba (2024)

Filmography

Stage

• Summer Holiday
• Joseph trip the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Die Soen
• 'n Plek Binne Jou Seun
• Sound break into Music
• Dis Hoe Dit Was – Die Steve Hofmeyr Storie
• Lied front line my Hart
• Boeta se Vel Fluit

Film

Television

References