{UAH} SA minister 'blackmailed over sex tape'
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The spokesperson for South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has said that "state security agents" hacked his phone and stole a sexually explicit video.
His spokesman said people then tried to blackmail Mr Gigaba.
"Several started demanding from around April an amount of 10m rand ($690,000, £540,000) in cash.
"When it became clear that he was really not interested in entertaining these blackmail demands the call now began to demand that he intervenes in various state entities," Vuyo Mkhize is quoted by the public broadcaster SABC as saying.
A tape with sexually explicit material from Mr Gigaba's phone was leaked over the weekend.
The home affairs minister responded by saying that the video was meant for him and his wife only:
He also issued an apology for the embarrassment that it caused:
These blackmail/extortion attempts as well as the illegal interception of my communication/hacking of my phone have all been reported to the relevant law enforcement/intelligence agencies and I am advised that the resultant investigations are still continuing...
I take this opportunity to publicly apologise, in advance, to the rest of my family - especially my kids, my mom and my in-laws - and the South African public for the pain and embarrassment the likely wider distribution of this private material will cause...
But the minister has said this was a privacy issue:
I take this opportunity to publicly apologise, in advance, to the rest of my family - especially my kids, my mom and my in-laws - and the South African public for the pain and embarrassment the likely wider distribution of this private material will cause...
I hope our nation will, someday, constructively engage with the question of whether it is correct to condone and promote the gross invasion of the privacy of others by distributing such material, more especially in the clear absence of a public interest justification...
A position that was backed up by the country's former anti-corruption tsar Thuli Madonsela who tweeted that "what [the minister's] does in private without harming anyone or the dignity of his office is nobody's business":
There are people who support Malusi Gigaba and people who oppose him. Has what happened over the weekend with the "private material" changed your view on him? Should he stay in office or resign even though "it's private"....? #SAfmSunrise @SAfmRadio
Let's be fair. Minister @mgigaba should be held accountable for his work and conduct. What he does in private without harming anyone or the dignity of his office is nobody's business. The person to resign and face other consequences is the one that distributed the video
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