Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig soroban.co.za. NS
Answer
soroban.co.za. 5 NS ns2.cpns.co.za.
soroban.co.za. 5 NS ns1.cpns.co.za.
soroban.co.za. 5 NS ns4.cpns.co.za.
soroban.co.za. 5 NS ns3.cpns.co.za.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0