The toyboy who beats me - MP
2006-09-17 19:03
Sonia Molema
Pretoria - "I am breaking a six-year silence on abuse. I have suffered terribly at the hands of the man I loved dearly for many years."
So said African National Congress MP and member of the ANC Women's League (ANCWL), Lorraine Mashiane, 50, after she opened a case of assault against her toyboy boyfriend, Thuli Mboweni, 32.
Mboweni is a personal assistant to Tshwane MEC for agriculture and evironmental management Tessa Ernest.
Mashiane, a mother of four children and a divorcee, also applied for a protection order against her lover.
She claimed Mboweni punched her in the face, threw her clothes into the street and chased her away on Monday night.
On Thursday, however, City Press learned that Mashiane had reconciled with Mboweni.
"She went back to him the very same day he was released on bail," said a source.
Mashiane did not want City Press to go ahead with the story and declined to comment.
Sources close to the couple said Mboweni was angry because Mashiane had hired building contractors to break the wall surrounding his house to do some renovations to it.
'Not the first time.
Sources said when Mboweni returned from work and found that the wall had been broken down, he was not impressed and started attacking her with his fists.
The couple live together in Mboweni's house in Mabopane Block E. Sources said it was not the first time Mboweni had assaulted her.
"Last year, she also opened an assault case against Thuli," said a source.
Senior superintendent Pieter du Plessis of North West police said Mboweni appeared in Ga-Rankuwa magistrate's court on Tuesday.
He was released on R500 bail and the case was postponed to October 16.
Du Plessis said Mboweni had opened a case of malicious damage to property against Mashiane for the wall that was broken down.
- City Press