Big Brother Mzansi host Afrika Mdutyulwa, popularly known as Smash Afrika, has called out one of the housemate’s ‘unhygienic’ tendencies during the Sunday night live show.
Thandeka was called out for washing her face in the kitchen sink over the dishes, steaming her face in the pot used for cooking and drying her weave with the oven. Many have been speaking against her actions, and calling them unhygienic for other housemates who are in the house.
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Defending herself, Thandeka said when she steams her face she does not use anything to cover her, its just steam coming through. She admitted that she has washed her face in the sink.
“Some people even wash babies in the sink. I didn’t come here with a dirty face or something like that,” said Thandeka. When asked about drying her weave using the oven, she said that was because they did not have a hairdryer, so she used the heat from the oven in the first week.
Smash addressed Thandeka washing her face in the sink , look at the housemates faces 😭😭 #BBMzansiS6 pic.twitter.com/mS35CaWdwM
— D. (@Lush_Beauty1) February 22, 2026
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X (formerly Twitter) users also weighed in:
Oh they finally addressed Thandeka’s unhygienic skin routine in the kitchen. 🤌🏼😭 pic.twitter.com/hu86b1ze6L
— Jabulani Macdonald ⚡️ (@Jabu_Macdonald) February 22, 2026
That is so unhygienic.
Why is Thandeka steaming her face using the same pots everyone has to cook from? Why is she even doing her face in the kitchen and not the bathroom?
Why not boil hotter and put it in a dish or something then do her face?.
🤮 Yuck!
— Kgopolo (@PhilMphela) February 7, 2026
That actually made it seem like it was Ilano raising the issue. The housemates didn’t care because none of them said anything. It was production trying to cook because their dull housemates can’t do anything but conspiring to nominate Thandeka & Mmeli #BBMzansiS6 https://t.co/XDJS8gwiw4
— Limpopo Girlie 🫅 Female King (@Bantuprincess) February 23, 2026
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