ANCWL catfight could harm party

Messages about pregnancy draw condemnation

- By Bongani Mdakane

The Free State ANCWL provincial secretary and Mangaung Metro’s MMC for public safety and security are embroiled in an embarrassing, vulgar-laced catfight that has the potential to dent the image of the party and implode the mayoral committee.

The tiff between the two erupted when MMC Sibongile “Bongi” Tsoleli allegedly posted a demeaning message about a pregnancy on ANCWL WhatsApp group “Mangaung Women Activist”, which was interpreted as a dig at her colleague Theodorah Mosala, who is MMC of economic development in the same metro.

“It’s better for a boy to make me a fool, not to impregnate me,” Tsoleli posted.

Mosala, who lost her husband five years ago, had recently announced her pregnancy.

Tsoleli’s meme created a storm in the group, and ANCWL members and leaders unleashed their fury in a flurry of insults.

One ANCWL leader said, “You... that Bongi, I want God to punish her. She forgets that she was also sleeping with young boys and as her womb is tired and cannot get pregnant, now she has issues when Theo gets pregnant. Bongi should be ashamed of herself.”