SA’s renowned tabloid journalist, Kuli Roberts has passed away!

SA’s TV and radio personality Kuli Roberts has reportedly passed away.

A family member, who preferred to remain anonymous confirmed to Kasi Voice News that Kuli, real name Nomakula Roberts passed away last night, the family is yet to confirm her cause of death in a statement.

She died on Wednesday evening shortly before she was scheduled to do a radio interview.

What came as a shocking revelation, Roberts posted a tweet that left many in dimness as she tweeted: “Love u Des. All the best!”

Love u Des. All the best!

— STOP ALBINISM KILLINGS (@kuliroberts) February 9, 2022

This comes after she lost her CCMA case where she was disputing her “unfair dismissal’ against her previous employers.

Last year, Kuli was expelled from Sunday World after she went against journalism’s ethical code of conduct, where reports emerged that she was politically affiliated with the political party, African Transformation Movement (ATM).

Roberts was relieved off her duties from the tabloid paper where she worked as a lifestyle editor.

After being thrust out, Roberts took to her social media to detail how she was battling with her dismissal in which she termed as a traumatic experience: “Now I am jobless. I am sitting without employment because of something I didn’t do,” she tweeted.

“I am not a card-carrying member of ATM, I am not a member of ATM. All we were doing was talk about the safety in my area, now I don’t have a job because of that,” she added.

She was known in the entertainment industry as a radio personality, TV presenter, fashion star and tabloid journalist.

She was also popularly known for co-hosting the SABC2’s reality television show ‘What Not To Wear’ and SABC3′ Trending SA.

Between 2008 and 2009 she worked as the female co-host of the SABC1 gossip show The Real Goboza.

In the radio fraternity, she worked alongside the late Bob Mabena at Kaya FM, and recently she featured in the Netflix’s film Angelina.