Deon de Lange and Sapa
SPORT and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula has apologised for his “acts and omissions” after weekend newspaper reports alleged that he had a brief affair with a 27-year-old woman who now claims to be carrying his child.
Independent Newspapers reported yesterday that Mbalula, a married father of two, had a brief tryst with Joyce Omphemetse Molamu, a North West mother of one, shortly before he went to the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand this month.
Mbalula apparently met the woman at a function in Houghton on August 26. That evening he accompanied her to a flat where the first of two sexual encounters took place, according to reports.
After initially denying the affair through his lawyers and failing in a court bid on Saturday to prevent the story from being published, Mbalula made a dramatic U-turn, accusing the woman of trying to extort money from him in return for her silence.
Yesterday he told Sapa that he now regretted having subjected his family to “media allegations and speculation”.
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