Malaika Full Statement on Faceboob about Mamabolo. STATEMENT ON FALSE ALLEGATIONS LEVELED AGAINST I MY PERSON AND THE EXECUTIVE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF EKURHULENI
I am writing this statement on the advise of my lawyer, who believes it prudent that I should state my side of the story as pertains to the malicious accusations that have been leveled against my person by Mr K Mamabolo and which have been making rounds on social media over the last 24 hours. This statement may go into record.
Malaika relationship with Mamabolo
Towards the end of March 2020, I entered into a brief relationship with Mr Katlego Mamabolo, a relationship that was the product of mutual consent from two rational adults and which lasted barely two weeks. Mamabolo and I communicated mainly through phone calls, which were Initiated by both of us. Call records will demonstrate that the bulk of our calls were made by me, and contrary to his accusation that this was due to my pursuing him, it was a simple economic decision resulting from the fact that I am on a Vodacom Red Premium contract that gives me unlimited call minutes. Mamabolo, on the other hand, is on prepaid and rarely had airtime to make calls and so our agreement was that he would indicate either by text or by leaving me a missed call, when he wanted us to speak, and I would then make the call given that I had the means to and it was therefore only logical that I should be the one calling. This is a fact that can be easily corroborated by individuals, friends and associates, with whom I have a similar arrangement as pertains to calls. There is therefore nothing unique about my calls to Mamabolo, contrary to his attempts at using them as evidence of him being pursued by me.
At some point after we had been engaged in these telephonic exchanges, Mamabolo and I made the decision that he would come and spend time at my place in Centurion so that we could get to know each other better. He subsequently did come to my place and we did, upon mutual agreement, engage in consensual sexual relations with the understanding that we were trying to build a relationship. Mamabolo left my place after about 3-5 days to attend a funeral and I then decided and communicated to him that I was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship with him. This decision was the result of extensive reflection on my part. Mamabolo was reluctant to accept the end of our relationship and would consistently ask me to give it another chance. He sent me many messages asking that we work things out, to which I consistently indicated I was emotionally unavailable to him. When his pleas fell on deaf ears, he proceeded to use manipulative tactics, including telling me that he had slept with other women as evidence that he in fact did not love me. When I refused to engage him at this level, he resorted to informing me that he was in fact lying and pleading with me to go for counselling with him so that we could save our relationship. I declined this and requested that he seek counselling on his own and allow me to move on with my life as I was not prepared to be with him. I pleaded with him repeatedly to accept my decision. For a little while, he retreated and I was thankful for this and decided to accept the proposal of a man, who I will call Guy (not his real name), and who I believed and still believe is the man I want to be with.
On Saturday, 9th May 2020, Mamabolo sent me a text message indicating that he missed me and wanted to hear my voice, and asking that I call him. I responded with an emphatic “No’ and left it at that. The following day, on Sunday, 10th May, he sent me a text message at 11h47 wishing me a happy Mothers’ Day and congratulating me on my new relationship. His message was not malicious in tone and so I assumed that he was in fact at a point where he was finally getting his closure and that my relationship with Guy, which I had acknowledged publicly, provided the finality he needed to move on. Because of the politeness in the tone of his message, when he called me shortly thereafter, I picked up his call and indicated that I was busy and would call later. I did as I had promised. During that call, Mamabolo asked that we please get back together and I repeatedly said no, indicating to him that I was with someone t love and want to build a relationship with, and that he needed to understand this fact. After more than an hour of a conversation in which he was pleading for reconciliation, I hung up the phone as I realised we were moving around in circles. He then sent me a text message informing me that my partner would be “sorted” because, and I quote his words verbatim, “I love you that much, there is nothing I would not do for you I responded to this by demanding that he respect my partner. He called me repeatedly and I eventually answered his call, during which he pleaded with me to break up with my partner. When it became clear that I wasn’t going to, he proceeded to send me WhatsApp messages informing me that he was going to destroy me because I had destroyed him. Weary of fighting with him, I indicated that I wasn’t going to fight and that he should think deeply about what he was doing to me given his role as the founder and director of a private prosecution organisation that seeks to provide legal assistance to victims of gender-based violence. His response was that he did not care about losing his company as losing me was the ultimate tragedy in his life and little else mattered. He then informed me that he would release photos of me masturbating, on Facebook, at 8pm that evening. I was unmoved by this threat for the simple reason that I had never sent Mamabolo a nude photo and knew therefore that his threats were baseless and aimed at blackmailing me into giving him another chance.
Malaika went on to say, “Mamabolo proceeded to go onto Facebook and mention me by name, and post screenshots of our private conversations as well as a photo of me holding sexual handcuffs – clothed. I had sent this to him during a flirtatious conversation and indicted that I would use them on him. This is nothing untoward as adults do engage in such activities. He went on to cast aspersions on my name and more disturbingly, on the person of my boss, claiming that I am doing a PhD for my boss. I want to address these damning allegations.”
In several of his posts, Mamabolo makes the damning allegation that he has evidence that I am doing a PhD for my boss, the Executive Mayor of the City of Ekurhuleni, Cllr Mzwandile Masina. Mamabolo claims that he is in possession of a recording in which I claim to be doing this, and to be paid for it. The malice in this is immeasurable and necessitates engagement. It is true that I am in the employ of the City of Ekurhuleni, in the Office of the Executive Mayor. I work as a Speechwriter, which incorporates a research and editing element. My boss is in the process of completing a PhD, and I too am pursuing a Masters degree and another postgraduate qualification. It is in the nature of scholarship that scholars exchange their written work for review and engagement. My boss sent me a chapter of his work and requested my opinion on it, and I saved this on my laptop desktop. At the time when Mamabolo was at my house, he repeatedly made use of my laptop to watch Netflix, and would do so in both my absence and presence. He might have seen this chapter on my computer and made the assumption that I was writing it when in fact, I was merely reviewing it and making commentary. I am a Geographer by qualification and know little about the subject matter that my boss is researching about, which is on local government. It would be a Herculean task for me to write a credible dissertation on it, and this is why my intervention is solely at the level of commentary around the strength of the argument as well as grammatical and syntax issues.
Mamabolo’s assumption that assisting someone with this is indicative of doing their dissertation for them is reflective of his lack of understanding of scholarship and the ideational space as it were. It is not uncommon and in fact, it is at the heart of scientific rigour that scholars review and engage with the work of their peers. This is something that anyone pursuing or holding a Masters or doctoral qualification would know. Mamabolo doesn’t know this because he has never operated at this level academically. This is therefore unfamiliar territory to him. His claims that I told him I’m doing a PhD for my boss are a complete fabrication, and one I take serious exception to because they cast aspersions on the person of the Executive Mayor, a man who has at all times conducted his academic work with integrity. Despite everything else that he posted, albeit with the aim of embellishment, he has failed to produce the voice-note he claims to have, in which we engage in the discussion about my boss’s PhD, for the simple reason that it does not exist. That he continues to cast aspersions on both my and the Mayors credibility and ethical conduct is damaging and has implications that go beyond reputational damage. It is, quite frankly, an attack on scholarship.
On the 11th of May 2020, I successfully filed a case of harrassment and crimen injuria against Mamabolo at the Douglasdale Police Station in Sandton and provided all material evidence of his harassment. I did this out of fear that his erratic behaviour could culminate in the harm of my person as well as the person of my partner, whom he has already indicated he intends to have “sorted’. In addition to this, I have taken the decision to proceed with a criminal lawsuit against him. My lawyers are in the process of serving Mamabolo with a letter of demand, awaiting his address from investigators who have been put on the case. I have furthermore advised that they proceed with court action as I have every intention of suing him for the false allegations that he has leveled against me, the damage to my reputation that he has facilitated and the emotional distress that the ordeal has put me through.
This serves as the only official statement that I will issue in my capacity. Moving forward, all communication and commentary on my behalf will be issued by Motelane Attorneys Inc.”
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