I would like him lifeless – Deputy President Paul Mashatile's different girlfriend fumes as he marries another person

Only a week after his marriage, Deputy President Paul Mashatile is on the centre of a salacious romantic drama involving a jilted ex-girlfriend who’s now being investigated by the police for allegedly threatening him.

A consultant of Mashatile, Keith Khoza, has opened a prison grievance on his behalf towards the ex-lover, glamorous businesswoman Gugu Nkosi, alleging she wished to kill him.

Khoza stated he had laid the grievance with the inspector-general of intelligence (IGI) as a result of Mashatile suspected that State Safety Company (SSA) operatives had been getting used to undermine his marketing campaign for the ANC deputy presidency on the social gathering’s elective convention in December final yr.

The Sunday Occasions understands that Mondli Gungubele, who was the minister in command of the SSA on the time, was regarded as encouraging Nkosi to harass Mashatile.

Gungubele denied this, telling the Sunday Occasions: “I don’t know what you’re speaking about … I learn one thing within the newspapers a very long time in the past … however there isn’t a proof in any respect to show these allegations … I work with Paul, he’s my deputy president. He’s by no means uttered any of this stuff to me.”

The IGI’s workplace denied receiving the grievance from Khoza on behalf of Mashatile, and Gungubele stated the IGI had not approached him.

The spurned lover this week opened her coronary heart to the Sunday Occasions, releasing prolonged WhatsApp exchanges, SMS financial institution notifications, and footage of luggage of money she claims Mashatile lavished on her.

A duplicate of Khoza’s grievance, which the Sunday Occasions has seen and which was allegedly lodged through the IGI’s web site, contains allegations that after being turned away from Mashatile’s dwelling in November final yr Nkosi was “screaming” and declaring that he would by no means turn out to be deputy president.

“She blockaded the doorway, demanding to see the complainant and later referred to as minister Gungubele to transient him concerning the scenario — within the presence of an eyewitness. The eyewitness overheard minister Gungubele instructing her in isiZulu and stated ‘ungamuyeki’ [don’t let up]. She referred to as minister Gungubele plenty of occasions that morning,” reads Khoza’s grievance.

Gungubele’s successor, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, informed the Sunday Occasions she was conscious of the alleged threats towards Mashatile and stated he was “absolutely protected”.

On Sunday final week, after Mashatile’s conventional wedding ceremony to Humile Mjongile. Khoza opened a case towards Nkosi on the Sandton police station, after receiving what he believed was a loss of life menace from her.

Nkosi approached the venue final week the place he was tying the knot with Mjongile, getting so far as the gate, to confront the person subsequent in line to be president.

“The place are you donners … you dodged a bullet,” Nkosi allegedly texted Khoza that day. The SMS was accompanied by a video exhibiting her driving previous Mashatile’s home in Kelvin, Johannesburg, the place the marriage occurred.

Police spokesperson Col Dimakatso Sello stated detectives had been investigating a case of intimidation. No arrests had been made.

The Sunday Occasions has additionally heard a recording of an hour-long dialog Nkosi had with one other of Mashatile’s former girlfriends, Norma Mbatha, on Monday. In it, Nkosi rants that she wished to trigger mayhem at his wedding ceremony final Sunday. Mbatha confirmed the dialog to the Sunday Occasions.

“I would like him lifeless! I’ve modified my mission. You had been going to listen to about me within the information that I’ve killed the deputy president,” Nkosi fumes. “Yesterday, I used to be going to hit them. Everyone was going to die. I had an R5 and R36 [rifles]. , we had been going to be arrested, however they’d be lifeless. I had an association on how I used to be going to get out of jail. I used to be going to hit everybody who was in that home. Anyhow, it’s a small home.”

Yesterday, Nkosi stated she recorded the dialog herself and despatched it to Mashatile

and Khoza to “scare them”.

On Friday, Nkosi, who says she owns a development firm, informed the Sunday Occasions that Mashatile had promised to marry her and that she “feels betrayed” that he paid lobolo for another person.

“I’ve by no means labored with SSA, and I’m not a spy. I’m simply an clever girl. Paul was all the time shocked by the issues that I knew, that he thought I wouldn’t know,” she stated.

“You’ll be able to think about the shock I felt once I heard folks say that Paul is getting married — the worst half, getting married to Humile. I used to be fuming, I used to be offended and felt betrayed.

“So far as I do know, we’re nonetheless in a relationship as a result of we by no means broke up. He by no means informed me it’s over and I additionally by no means broke up with him,” she stated.

Images of Nkosi and Mashatile in happier occasions nonetheless cling on the wall in her residence in Morningside, which is lavishly adorned with Versace furnishings. Value tags of R10,500 are nonetheless hooked up to cushions from the Italian trend home. Her mattress is adorned with white Versace linen.

“I don’t know why Paul did this to me. Why did he select to humiliate me like this? Final yr, he promised to marry me. Everybody in his circle knew that Gugu is Paul’s individual and shortly his wife-to-be,” she stated.

Nkosi, 43, claims to have been in a relationship with Mashatile since 2014, and that his late spouse, Manzi, had recognized about her.

She says she first found Mashatile was married when he invited her to the ANC’s Siyanqoba rally in 2016 at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg. She was given a VIP accreditation tag.

She confirmed the Sunday Occasions {a photograph} of her in parliament’s public gallery through the 2020 state of the nation handle, sitting diagonally behind Paul and Manzi Mashatile.

Despite the fact that Mashatile was married, she stated, her three youngsters seen him as a father determine.

“Final yr he gave my daughter the very best matric dance any matriculant may ever ask for. He paid for all the things, together with hiring a automobile for her for greater than R100,000,” she stated. His marriage to Humile had devastated her. “Late final yr he informed me that he needs to give attention to the [ANC] convention and that he would pay lobolo after, so I’m shocked to see that he selected to pay lobolo for another person. I’m nonetheless ready for him to have a gathering with me and clarify all this mess that I’m seeing,” Nkosi stated.

This week, screenshots of her with baggage of money and international foreign money, which she claimed to have acquired from Mashatile, circulated on social media.

Within the interview, she claimed that Mashatile gave her a month-to-month allowance of between R200,000 and R500,000. She stated he final gave her cash in December. The Sunday Occasions has seen financial institution notifications that seem to help Nkosi’s claims.

Talking on Mashatile’s behalf, Khoza stated the deputy president strongly denied Nkosi’s allegations. Nevertheless, he didn’t deny that they had been romantically concerned.

“We need to point out that almost all of those allegations/accusations usually are not new. In November final yr, we reported improper behaviour by people within the state who had been implicated in these allegations. Because of this, we lodged a grievance with the IGI. We’re of the view that this matter remains to be being investigated.

“Given the persistence of these behind these accusations, we’ve referred this matter to the legislation enforcement companies to analyze and act,” Khoza stated.

Nkosi stated as lately as two weeks in the past she was utilizing a employed automobile paid for by Mashatile after she broken her pink Porsche Cayenne at his home on November 21, when, she stated, she caught him “dishonest” with Humile.

“I took that automobile again as a result of I noticed that he was taking me with no consideration and dragging his toes to pay for the fixing of that automobile. The automobile he had employed for me is a [Mercedes] C200. I can’t be going into severe conferences with a C200 — that was the primary automobile that I drove once I was 22. I even informed Paul this,” she stated.

Gungubele confirmed he knew Nkosi and had met her at ANC capabilities however denied ever working along with her to tarnish Mashatile’s picture forward of the convention, saying, “That’s nonsense … Paul and I, we come a good distance collectively.”

– Sunday Occasions