Fezekile Khuzwayo‚ the woman better known as Khwezi when she accused President Jacob Zuma of rape in 2005‚ had been studying a course in early childhood development at the time of her death on Saturday.
Her family announced her death on Sunday.
Family spokeswoman Bunie Matlanyane Sexwale said Khuzwayo had been ailing. She said this was a sad time for her mother‚ Beauty Khuzwayo‚ as they were very close.
“She had been unwell. Her mother wished it known that her child was ill and she had passed on. She was studying for early childhood development‚ which was her passion‚” Sexwale
After the rape accusation‚ and their house was burnt down‚ Khuzwayo and her mother left South Africa for the Netherlands in 2006‚ where they were granted political asylum.
Khuzwayo and her mother returned to South Africa in 2011‚ when they moved to a township in KwaZulu-Natal.
In August‚ former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils said he would donate R500‚000 paid to him by the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association and its chairman Kebby Maphatsoe to a trust fund to assist Khuzwayo for her educational needs and also to assist her elderly and sickly mother.
Maphatsoe agreed to pay the amount following a defamation suit launched by Kasrils.
In 2014‚ Maphatsoe claimed that Kasrils had “handpicked the woman who alleged Zuma had raped her”.
Zuma was acquitted of the charge.
Maphatsoe apologised irrevocably and unconditionally to Kasrils and to all women of South Africa who were offended by the statements he made about Kasrils in 2014.
Kasrils said the news of Khuzwayo’s death was “absolutely devastating”.
“It is a terrible tragedy. I spoke to her and her mother recently and she was just getting her life together again‚” Kasrils said.
Khwezi was studying early childhood development – ‘her passion’ - when she died
Fezekile Khuzwayo‚ the woman better known as Khwezi when she accused President Jacob Zuma of rape in 2005‚ had been studying a course in early childhood development at the time of her death on Saturday.
Her family announced her death on Sunday.
Family spokeswoman Bunie Matlanyane Sexwale said Khuzwayo had been ailing. She said this was a sad time for her mother‚ Beauty Khuzwayo‚ as they were very close.
“She had been unwell. Her mother wished it known that her child was ill and she had passed on. She was studying for early childhood development‚ which was her passion‚” Sexwale
After the rape accusation‚ and their house was burnt down‚ Khuzwayo and her mother left South Africa for the Netherlands in 2006‚ where they were granted political asylum.
Khuzwayo and her mother returned to South Africa in 2011‚ when they moved to a township in KwaZulu-Natal.
In August‚ former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils said he would donate R500‚000 paid to him by the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association and its chairman Kebby Maphatsoe to a trust fund to assist Khuzwayo for her educational needs and also to assist her elderly and sickly mother.
Maphatsoe agreed to pay the amount following a defamation suit launched by Kasrils.
In 2014‚ Maphatsoe claimed that Kasrils had “handpicked the woman who alleged Zuma had raped her”.
Zuma was acquitted of the charge.
Maphatsoe apologised irrevocably and unconditionally to Kasrils and to all women of South Africa who were offended by the statements he made about Kasrils in 2014.
Kasrils said the news of Khuzwayo’s death was “absolutely devastating”.
“It is a terrible tragedy. I spoke to her and her mother recently and she was just getting her life together again‚” Kasrils said.
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