{"id":342821,"date":"2017-08-07T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=342821"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:44:48","slug":"south-africa-minister-accused-of-hitting-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/south-africa-minister-accused-of-hitting-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa minister accused of hitting a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa’s Deputy Education Minister Mduduzi Manana has been accused of hitting a woman during a row at a nightclub.<\/p>\n
Mr Manana has not formally commented. However, in a recorded conversation, a person believed to be the minister can be heard admitting to slapping the alleged victim.<\/p>\n
The government has said it is aware of the assault accusation.<\/p>\n
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.<\/p>\n
Police figures showed that 64,000 cases were reported last year.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman confirmed to Agence France-Presse that they were investigating Sunday’s alleged incident.<\/p>\n
The minister for women in the president’s office, Susan Shabangu, has condemned the deputy minister’s “alleged violent actions”.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0a statement, she added that she received the news “with great shock and disappointment”.<\/p>\n
On the tape recording, which is purportedly a conversation between the victim’s brother and the minister, the person believed to be the minister admits to slapping the victim when she called him gay.<\/p>\n
He implies that other people who were with him were responsible for the worst of the violence.<\/p>\n
The recording then emerged in the South African press.<\/p>\n
Local media report that the row started over who should succeed President Jacob Zuma when he steps down as leader of the governing ANC in December.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa’s Deputy Education Minister Mduduzi Manana has been accused of hitting a woman during a row at a nightclub. Mr Manana has not formally commented. However, in a recorded conversation, a person believed to be the minister can be heard admitting to slapping the alleged victim. The government has said it is aware of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[9949,9950,9951],"yoast_head":"\n