Nkosikhona Phakel’umthakathi Ndabandaba is lying on her back and says that the child seen in the video taking a picture with the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is not her.
Phakela said this while talking toIt’s the weekend regarding the video that went viral on social media yesterday where he (Phakela), Ngizwe Mchunu and Mfazogele Makhanya are seen having a meeting with the president of the country.
These three are among the people who are at the forefront of the burning campaign for the expulsion of immigrants who are in the country without documents.
It will be remembered that the issue of this meeting has caused a lot of discussion in the past with some accusing Phakela and Ngizwe of selling the struggle.
Some believed that they had been bribed by the president, which Phakela denied both ways.
There was a lot of talk on social media yesterday after this video appeared. Many people were asking if Mfazozele was there. They said that they were telling themselves that only Ngizwe and Phakela were present at the meeting.
But the appearance of Phakela taking a picture of a young man with the president is what caused the uproar as some believed that this was his son.
Many people linked this with the speech made by Phakela in the press conference he recently held in Gugu Dlamini Park, Durban where he said that even his child did not come in to take a picture with the president because he had left it in the car.
”The way I respected that meeting with the president, I didn’t even take my child to take a picture with him. I left it in the car and entered it myself,” he said on the day of the press conference.
Phakela went on to say that this is why he did not inform the founder of Mach And March, Jacinta Ngobese Zuma about it because they were invited. He said that if the president wanted Jacinta, he would have called her.
Phakela responded like this after some people complained about Jacinta’s absence.
”That’s not my son, he’s just a boy we take with us when we go away. My boy’s name is Mabutho, he is not the one who seems to be taking a picture with the president,” he said.
He said that his meeting with the president respects him a lot and it was a historic event for him.
He said that’s why he didn’t take pictures and hang them on social media because for him that was a big deal.
It died yesterday, there is a lot to talk about this matter.