Weekly Mail Reporter
THE office of PWV premier Tokyo Sexwale has reacted angrily to the Weekly Mail & Guardian’s story last week stating that the premier’s wife owned several flats in Johannesburg through a close corporation.
Sexwale’s representative, Ronnie Mamoepa, charged that the article was ”full of innuendos and contains factual inaccuracies”. He denied Sexwale had ever claimed to own no property and that he had paid a deposit for his wife’s flats. Earlier, Sexwale had said this was occupation rent, not a deposit.
”The article is full of dinner-table gossip. (The reporter) deliberately misled the public with her article and in this context we feel aggrieved and are therefore entitled to an apology,” Mamoepa said.
* Cosatu representatives said this week the union federation would no longer answer WM&G queries because ”there is concern about the way you approach Cosatu stories”.