Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ciphercloud.co.za. NS
Answer
ciphercloud.co.za. 2 NS rohin.ns.cloudflare.com.
ciphercloud.co.za. 2 NS cortney.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
rohin.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 A 108.162.195.153
rohin.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 A 162.159.44.153
rohin.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 A 172.64.35.153
cortney.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 A 108.162.192.87
cortney.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 A 172.64.32.87
cortney.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 A 173.245.58.87
rohin.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 AAAA 2606:4700:58:0:0:0:a29f:2c99
rohin.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 AAAA 2803:f800:50:0:0:0:6ca2:c399
rohin.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 AAAA 2a06:98c1:50:0:0:0:ac40:2399
cortney.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 AAAA 2606:4700:50:0:0:0:adf5:3a57
cortney.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 AAAA 2803:f800:50:0:0:0:6ca2:c057
cortney.ns.cloudflare.com. 3 AAAA 2a06:98c1:50:0:0:0:ac40:2057
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0