This is something I am not going to let go until a lesson is learnt: Msimanga

This is something I am not going to let go until a lesson is learnt: Msimanga

by | Dec 23, 2020

“As I said from the get go – I was set on setting the record straight and clearing my name. One part is done, the next part is to make sure that there is a civil claim,” DA Gauteng leader, Solly Msimanga, has told Local Voices while reacting to the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision not to prosecute him for sexual harassment.

Msimanga says he has instructed his lawyers to proceed with the lawsuit against former DA Gauteng MPL, Nkele Molapo, who had accused him of sexual harassment.

Molapo says the incident occurred in 2014.

However, Msimanga says the NPA’s decision has vindicated him, proving that there is no case for him to answer.

The former Tshwane Mayor is confident that a court will rule in his favour in the lawsuit against Molapo.

He says after the civil claim – he will publish the real story behind the accusations. He says he has been receiving numerous calls from people who find themselves in the same boat as him.

“Because I think a lot of people in South Africa need to know what really happens and what is really happening. I mean this is not the first time that a political figure would be wrongfully accused and sometimes things just turn to die without it being followed. Families are destroyed and lives are destroyed. I am going to ensure that that’s not the case.”

Msimanga says false sexual harassment and rape allegations are problematic as they take away from the real cases that need attention. He says he wants the lawsuit against Molapo to deter other women from laying bogus claims against men.

“It is these bogus cases that go unabated that we now need to make sure that as much as we are talking about not in my name and wanting men to behave in a particular way, we should also be condemning women who are using this pandemic in South Africa for their own selfish and stupid personal gains or personal vendettas. This is something I am definitely not going to let go until a lesson is learnt and over and above that – we are going to make sure that anybody who thinks about doing this in future will have to think twice because there will be consequences.”

Molapo maintains that she was sexually harassed.

She plans requesting issuance of a nolle prosequi certificate from the NPA so that she can explore the possibility of private prosecution.

The certificate is a declaration by a prosecutor to the judge on a decision to drop a case.

Msimanga off the hook after NPA drops sexual harassment case

Msimanga off the hook after NPA drops sexual harassment case

by | Dec 22, 2020

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has decided not to prosecute DA Gauteng leader, Solly Msimanga, for sexual harassment.

Sacked DA Gateng MPL, Nkele Molapo, laid the charge against the former Tshwane Mayor early in October, accusing the politician of groping her while dropping her off from a function in 2014.

She had initially laid a complaint with the DA and later withdrew it, saying she no longer had confidence in the party’s internal process.

At the time of making the claim, Molopo was being probed for leaking strategic information to EFF leader, Julius Malema.

A charge that she was found guilty of and summarily expelled from the party.

The DA questioned her timing of the reporting on the alleged sexual harassment.

However, Molapo believes the DA was bias in the matter.

Now, she is insinuating that DA Federal Council Chairperson, Helen Zille, might have had prior knowledge that the NPA would drop the charge against Msimanga.

Molapo says prior to her meeting with the NPA, Zille wrote an article that “reads like it was written by someone who knew what the outcome would be.”  

In the piece, titled Getting closer to the Truth for a Sex Scandal, the DA Federal leader questions the treatment of the harassment case against Msimanga by the media, among other issues.

Zille said despite numerous social media posts Molapo had written calling Msimanga “Eye Candy”, her “Monday Crush”;  “King Solly”, no media house questioned Molapo’s motives for laying a charge six years after the alleged sexual harassment incident.

She accuses Molapo of having accelerated victimhood after realising that she stood no chance of winning the misconduct case against her.

Molapo says she will be officially writing to the NPA requesting issuance of a nolle prosequi certificate following their decision not to proceed with the sexual assault case.

“What I find particularly strange is that the prosecutor conceded that my version was more believable, and in fact went as far as saying that with the evidence before him, he doesn’t doubt that the incident did take place. However, he will not prosecute because of one minor thing that might let the accused off the hook. Even when I said that I’m willing to take the stand and be grilled by the defence on that technicality, he declined to prosecute because he has the discretion to do so.”

Molapo says she is seeking legal advice on the matter and might push for a private prosecution.