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Mbalula: Nobody said your dress sense is an invitation for prostitution

Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula. Picture credit: Bafana Mahlangu
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula. Picture credit: Bafana Mahlangu

Sports and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula took a swipe at Ntsiki Mazwai following her open letter.

Mazwai jotted an open letter calling Mbalula “The Minister of Beyonce” in which she tells the minister that “his obsession with Beyonce” kills her.

The poet went head to head with the minister over the weekend tweeting that she has a problem with Mbalula wearing the Amakipkip clothing brand, for some reason.

 “Like at the channel o awards, I don’t understand how an uncle who is chasing FIFTY was dressed in amakipkip clothes….I just don’t. Sorry,” she wrote on Twitter

In the letter, Mazwai said that he dresses like he rolls with American rapper Lil Wayne.

Mbalula hit back saying that he has a better sense of fashion and unlike Mazwai he is not always naked.

“Questioning my dress sense when you go around naked nobody ever said your dress sense is an invitation for prostitution.”

 

He said that Mazwai should not be writing letters but should be coming to him to her develop her career.

“Instead of personal attacks, she can rather come to me and we help her develop her talent. Writing open letters can't be your hustle”.

Mbalula added that he will not entertain her.

“This so called open letter is not about my duties as minister of sports whether am doing my job or not it's a personal attack...(sic)”

“I don't give a hack about Ntsiki mazwai and her hallucinations, am not entertaining her am entertains her lies that's all.(sic)”

Mazwai said that Mbalula was willing to spend hundreds of thousands on Beyonce but would not spend such amounts on a South African artist.

Mbalula said: “Even the first attack on me about Beyoncé was a frivolous act I had to run around and explain myself over nothing. (sic)”