Ntsiki Mazwai believes Moja Love threw her under the bus
'You don't do this when I attack black people. This is deep,' says the presenter.
Ntsiki Mazwai. Picture: File
Following yesterday’s statement from TV channel Moja Love in which they distanced themselves from TV presenter and musician Ntsiki Mazwai after the remarks she made about South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) news anchor Leanne Manas, Mazwai has hit back at the channel.
Taking to her preferred medium of communication, Mazwai tweeted her own rebuttal statement in the form of a video and later shared a screenshot from a tweet from one of her followers which asserted that she needed her own show.
Statement from NTSIKI MAZWAI about Leanne Mannas and Moja Love. ✌🏿 pic.twitter.com/t4g23FqTV0
— NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) August 1, 2019
“It’s true I deserve a channel who will protect me and not throw me under the bus…” tweeted Mazwai.
It's true I deserve a channel who will protect me and not throw me under the bus…… pic.twitter.com/jIrNXcW4Kv
— NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) August 2, 2019
Additional tweets by Mazwai allude to the possibility that their relationship between herself and the channel may have been shaky for sometime.
Careful……I have a hurtful tongue. Don't provoke me
— NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) August 1, 2019
I think I was planted in the wrong garden. Ironically I told them that I want my own show where I speak my own issues. They didn't listen. https://t.co/9rJNfeG4QM
— NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) August 2, 2019
Wow. When a black channel protects a white personality but has NEVER protected any of the blacks Iv critiqued. 2ndly my truth remains….white privilege exists. Let me do my podcast and express more view on this and on this statement https://t.co/LMfi1v1YCL
— NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) August 1, 2019
Wow 👀you don't do this when I attack black people. This is deep https://t.co/LMfi1v1YCL
— NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) August 1, 2019
Mazwai found herself in hot water after slating Manas on her 15th anniversary working for the public broadcaster.
“No I don’t think Leanne Manna is amazing at her job – I think she is just white. And enjoying privilege. She can’t even speak indigenous languages. She is not African,” tweeted Mazwai.
Manas promptly and politely responded: “Good morning Ntiski [sic], it’s ‘Manas’ and everyone is entitled to an opinion and a place in this country. I respect your views.”
Manas’ response only set Mazwai off and she went on a full-on rant in which she accused Manas of being patronising before telling her that she (Mazswai) was not asking for her (Manas’s) permission to voice her opinion.
By Thursday afternoon, Moja Love had released a statement that reads as follows:
“The views expressed by Ntsiki Mazwai are not those of the channel and were expressly made by Ms Mazwai in her personal capacity. Moja LOVE values, loves, and respects all South Africans and we celebrate all the diversity that enriches our country. We do not condone any form of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, religion, gender, race, culture or in any other form.”
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