KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health Nomagugu Simelane has been served with a letter demanding that she retract comments she made alleging that traditional Zulu prime minister Thulasizwe Buthelezi solicits sexual favours from married women.
We are instructed to demand that you immediately, formally and publicly retract the statement within seven days of receipt hereof, failing which our client will have no option but to to seek damages in the amount of R10 million against you as compensation for your wrongful and unlawful conduct.Buthelezi vehemently denies these allegations citing them as defamatory. “We are further instructed to place on record that our client denies any accusations of unlawful and wrongful misconduct.
It is not right to us women that izinduna defend Thulasizwe for having the microphone grabbed from him but reserve their comments when Thulasizwe asks for sexual favours from married women. Why are the izindunas quiet for such a shame that a mayor tells employees that ‘before I pay your salary that you have worked for come and sleepover at my place first'.