Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula branded Sunette Viljoen, the country’s Olympic javelin silver medallist, as "arrogant and thankless" in a spat on Monday over cash bonuses. Mbalula and Viljoen exchanged insults on Twitter in which the minister has been accused of breaking a promise to pay R70,000 to silver medal winners at the Rio Games.
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