Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig home-connect.co.za. NS
Answer
home-connect.co.za. 5 NS jamie.ns.cloudflare.com.
home-connect.co.za. 5 NS dave.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0