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Former Cabinet Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has passed away. Image: Monika Flueckiger / flickr

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Tweeps react to Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s death

Popular Twitter user @AdvoBarryRoux revealed on Monday, 5 June that former Cabinet Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson may have committed suicide after a bribery scandal. “Tina Monica Joemat-Pettersson committed suicide after the bribery scandal. Tina Joemat-Peterson is among the 3 ANC MPs who tried to extort a R600 000 bribe from Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s husband to make the […]

By Hennely Nel
06-06-23 09:57
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tweeps react to Tina Joemat-Pettersson's death
Former Cabinet Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has passed away. Image: Monika Flueckiger / flickr

Popular Twitter user @AdvoBarryRoux revealed on Monday, 5 June that former Cabinet Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson may have committed suicide after a bribery scandal.

“Tina Monica Joemat-Pettersson committed suicide after the bribery scandal. Tina Joemat-Peterson is among the 3 ANC MPs who tried to extort a R600 000 bribe from Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s husband to make the Section 194 inquiry probing Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office go away,” tweeted Barry Roux parody account.

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TINA JOEMAT-PETTERSSON: BRIBERY SCANDAL

TimesLIVE reported that ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina confirmed on Monday that the 59-year-old ANC MP Tina Joemat-Pettersson died at home.

Majodima told the publication: “She is no more, her family has confirmed she has passed away. I spoke to her sons as they are the ones who informed me about her passing. I don’t have further details for now.”

Social media users now suspect that Joemat-Pettersson may have taken her own life after IOL reported Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s husband Mandla Skhosana laid a complaint with the police accusing Joemat-Pettersson of trying to extort money from him.

According to Sunday World and Independent Media, Joemat-Pettersson and the three MPs including (ANC) Parliamentary Chief Whip Pemmy Majodina and chairperson of the inquiry Qubudile Dyantyi, were allegedly trying to extort a R600 000 bribe from Mkhwebane and her husband.

A recent Sunday Independent exposé implicated her and two other MPs for soliciting a bribe to make suspended Public Protector advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s Section 194 Parliamentary inquiry go away.

The Star confirmed on Monday, 5 June that Skosana met Hawks investigators in Germiston, Ekurhuleni, on Friday, 2 June where he handed over all the WhatsApp messages between him and Joemat-Pettersson.

Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Thandi Mbambo confirmed: “We can confirm that the Hawks received a case docket of extortion as per cas 95/05/23 for further investigation. Investigating is at its infancy stage. We are not at liberty to discuss details thereof so as to protect the integrity of the investigation.”

Skosana, in his affidavit to the police, said that when opening the case, Joemat-Pettersson told him that she was representing Majodina and Dyantyi.

The publication added that Majodina and Dyantyi publicly distanced themselves from the scandal but haven’t called Joemat-Pettersson a liar.

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TWEEPS WEIGH IN

@TheoBotoulas: “Whatever the circumstances, the death of a 59 year old woman is tragic. I find it best to have respect for the dead, even those who I disagreed with when they were alive. She was a lot of things during her career, boring was not one of them. Condolences to her family. May her Soul Rest in Peace.”

@PravinMustGo: “The ancestors of Adv Mkhwebane are working overtime.”

@Gowjas: “What’s so boring in all this is people dying without telling us the truth first. It’s the same with Zuma telling us he will spill the beans but we’re still waiting. I won’t be surprised if it’s a fake death and she is already with Gavin Watson looking at breaking news in SA.”

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SA People will give an update when Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s family confirms her cause of death as this is a Twitter person’s view and not medically proven.

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