Pop Culture Drop: Shakira Defeats the Taxman & Lola Young Sets the Stage
Afternoons with Zweli on 947 · 9 June 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: Afternoons. Speaker 2: Wo'dswelly, I'm nine four seven. Speaker 3: Dropping all your favorite afternoon beats from twelve to to three. Speaker 2: We're getting into news a loser. Speaker 3: The world of pop culture always so interesting to see what your favorite artists are Speaker 3: up to, who's got big releases coming, and most importantly, who's making the money. And Speaker 3: we're going to kick it off with Shaquira Shaqueira. Speaker 2: So, Shakira has officially. Speaker 3: Won a major battle in her long running Spain tax case. Now a Spanish high Speaker 3: court ruled that authorities failed to prove that she was a tax resident in Spain Speaker 3: in twenty eleven, ordering the government to return more than seventy million dollars to Shakira Speaker 3: seventy million Doug seventy million. Speaker 2: You would be a billionaire. Speaker 3: Right now in South Africa if I'm not mistaken, And they've also got to pay Speaker 3: her with interest as well. The court found that Shakira spent only one hundred and Speaker 3: sixty three days in Spain that year, which is below the one hundred and eighty Speaker 3: three day threshold required for tax residency. So this ruling basically overturns the fines the Speaker 3: penalties they tied to cases since twenty eleven after an eight year legal fight. So Speaker 3: shout out to Shakira, and hey, shout out to her lawyers and the bank. She's Speaker 3: about to be richer than she's been in the past couple of years. And that
Listen in Visual Radio →