ANC acting spokesperson Zizi Kodwa accused of rape
The role of spokesperson appears to be a poisoned chalice for the ruling party over the past few months.
Former ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
News broke on Saturday night that the ANC’s acting spokesperson, Zizi Kodwa, was accused of rape. He resumed his old duties after the party’s appointed spokesperson, Pule Mabe, was accused of sexual harassment and subsequently cleared.
Kodwa has not yet been criminally charged.
The complainant sent a letter to ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte, who has said: “The advice we have given to the complainant is that she needs to go to the criminal justice system with her complaint in the sense that this is different because there is difficulty between staff and membership. It is difficult because, in our understanding, it happened in a private party setting.
“Of course, that’s the allegation. Therefore the ANC cannot do anything about it in terms of finding relevant facts and investigating it properly. That is the work of the criminal justice system.”
The party therefore advised her to approach the police.
A decision is yet to be made on whether this will affect Kodwa’s duties.
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