ANC MP Boy Mamabolo has apologised to EFF leader Julius Malema after alleging that he had assaulted his wife Mantoa during the debate of President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address.
Cape Town - ANC MP Boy Mamabolo has apologised to EFF leader Julius Malema after alleging that he had assaulted his wife Mantoa during the debate of President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address.
Mamabolo's apology comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa apologised to Malema and his wife during his reply to the State of the Nation Address and Malema issued a written apology to the president. Malema denied the allegations of abuse against him during the debate of the president's State of the Nation Address, and then alleged that Ramaphosa had abused his late wife.
In a letter addressed to Mr JS and Mrs Mantoa Malema, Mamabolo says: "I would like to take this opportunity to apologise and retract the insensitive statements that I have made in Parliament and outside regarding gender-based violence which was allegedly happening in your household. My question to Mr. Malema in terms of rule 14L of the Joint Sitting was influenced by the SMSs and WhatsApp messages that I received from the so-called 'Mantoa’s friends'.
"I posed the question to Mr Malema because the President during the Special Joint Sitting last year called upon us to expose any form of GBV in our country, and some jealous friends called “Friends of Mantoa “ started sending me msgs since November last year .
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