Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku Accuses Bonko Khoza of Sexual Assault During “Red Ink” Shoot
Actress and creative star Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku came out over the weekend with the confession of suffering sexual assault at the hands of award-winning actor and co-star Bonko Khoza. The incident in question, according to Nokwe-Mseleku, took place during a shoot for the Showmax Original Red Ink.
In the show, Nirvana portrayed Busi, while Bonko played Sipho, also known as Napoleon. The shoot on the 10th of September 2023 for Episode 1 was meant to depict a rape-murder scene in which Sipho perpetrated the act towards Busi. Both Nokwe-Mseleku and the letter from the lawyers of Bonko Khoza, which can be found inside Nirvana’s Google Drive evidence folder with relevant paper trail, state that before the shooting of the intense scene, physical boundaries had been established between her and Khoza, with a potential stunt double on standby.
Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku | SUPPLIED
Although the boundaries were agreed upon between both actors, Nirvana, in a 2024 write-up detailing a then-unnamed sexual assault incident on set, spoke about how the alleged violation happened.
“It is unfortunate that my co-star violated physically [SIC] boundaries, emotional as well as psychological too. We shot many variations of the scene. And during my close-up, in the most vulnerable and compromised position, after my co-star came out of the frame and he took it upon himself to thrust his pelvis into mine,” she said.
According to Nokwe-Mseleku, she had informed Khoza that her pelvis was one of her body parts she was uncomfortable with being touched.
As per the paper trail on the Drive folder, Nokwe-Mseleku’s agent Carolynn de Waal-Smit wrote to Bomb Production concerning the matter, appealing to the company to pay for Nokwe-Mseleku’s therapy sessions while also facilitating the process of getting Bonko Khoza to issue a formal written apology.
Bonko Khoza | SUPPLIED
The apology never materialised.
While Nokwe-Mseleku claimed that Bonko admitted to her that he “got carried away”, Bonko, according to the letter of his lawyers, vehemently denies that he sexually violated Nirvana, stating that “Bonko did not sexually assault Nirvana, nor was there a sex crime perpetrated on set on 10 September 2023”, while labelling the accusations as “defamatory”.
Bonko Khoza has not said anything on the matter since the story broke out.
This is a developing story.