Minister caught in sex text exchange with 29-year-old staffer
On March 5 last year, the minister sent her a text message saying "take one down!". This appears to have been a request for a photo of her private parts
Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe is embroiled in a text sex scandal that threatens to torpedo his ambitions for higher office.Radebe, the country's longest-serving cabinet minister, is in hot water for raunchy text and e-mail communication in which he asks for nude pictures of a 29-year-old Union Buildings staffer, Siyasanga Mbambani. In one explicit SMS, the 64-year-old minister writes: "C.l.i.t is requested" in what is believed to be a reference to her clitoris. Mbambani, a presidential photographer, is currently on suspension on charges related to insubordination. She blew the whistle on the minister and his sexting to bolster her claim she was being victimised by her bosses at the government communications agency GCIS, for being "improperly close" to politicians at the Union Buildings when, in fact, they were the ones "chasing after" her. In the past two weeks Radebe, through his public relations people, set up a number of meetings to engage with the Sunday Times. Three me...
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