One of the organisations who wrote to the president to remove himself from the annual Chairman's Conversation said the meeting reinforced the idea that dialogue between Given Mkhari and the president should not continue.
JOHANNESBURG - The Soul City Institute has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision not to take part in the Chairman's Conversation, hosted by Power FM.
In July, last year, Mkhari and his wife Ipeleng were both arrested after they individually laid criminal complaints of assault against each other over an alleged fight they had in their home. The couple subsequently withdrew their complaints and chose to resolve the matter privately. “The Presidency emphasises that the non-participation of President Ramaphosa should not be read as an endorsement of the untested allegations raised by the civil society organisations but a carefully weighed up decision taken in the public interest,” the statement read.
“The chairman of Power FM, Given Mkhari, has flagrantly refused to account for his own involvement in gender-based violence as an accused in a publicly lodged case of domestic violence, all while running a platform that purports to encourage the nation to ‘speak truth to power’. Domestic violence is not a private matter, especially when a case has been lodged,” The Wise Collective said in its letter dated 22 November 2019.
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