Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Mmusi Maimaine. Image via Twitter @RhuNdimande and Photo: MARCO LONGARI / AFP
Mmusi Maimane: ‘Snakes can’t protect you’
Is Mmusi Maimane shading Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who is trending on social media after a snake was spotted near her house this morning?
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Mmusi Maimaine. Image via Twitter @RhuNdimande and Photo: MARCO LONGARI / AFP
X users believe Mmusi Maimane is dragging Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who’s trending after a snake was spotted near her house on Thursday, 4 April morning.
IS MMUSI MAIMANE TROLLING NOSIVIWE MAPISA NQAKULA?
The former DA leader, Mmusi Maimane took to X to post about snakes after Nosiviwe Mapisa Nqakula handed herself over to the police.
“Snakes can’t protect you when your time has come,” says Maimane.
His post comes after X users spotted a huge snake near Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s home in a video shared by SABC news reporter Chriselda Lewis.
Maimane also posted: “The biggest snake that we must get rid of is the green and yellow python suffocating this economy.”
The former Speaker of Parliament handed herself over to police at the Lyttelton police station in Tshwane.
She is facing corruption allegations after allegedly soliciting and receiving R2.3 million in bribes.
X USERS ASK: IS IT A BIRD OR SNAKE?
Social media users asked SABC news reporter Chriselda Lewis if she didn’t see the snake when she was reporting this morning, she said it was two houses away.
@Chriseldalewis: “I didn’t see it with my eyes, but something is moving in the video. ADT is here looking. It’s two houses away!”
She also reveals on X that Mapisa-Nqakula’s neighbours have alerted security as the house where the snake was coming from is vacant.
702 media personality Relebogile Mabotja reveals on X that it might be a bird and not actually a snake in the video.
947 radio personality Mo Flava asked on X: “Where that snake was heading is the other question. Any theories?”
Social media user @tboydaflame explained: “F1: Due to the vehicle and birds moving in different directions. The camera motion creates the illusion that the soil path “snake” behind the bird on the right is moving.”
HUSBAND BLOCKS SEARCH FOR SEARCHING HER INDUMBA
Sunday World reports that commotion allegedly erupted between the police and Mapisa-Nqakula’s husband, Charles Nqakula.
He tried to block them from searching her indumba (a sacred sangoma’s hut) during the raid at the couple’s residence this week.
A source revealed to the publication: “Those guys got into the house and searched everywhere, but when they tried to move into the backyard, where the indumba for Nosiviwe is located. The old man blocked the door, telling the cops that they were not pure enough to set their foot in the room.”
National Prosecuting Authority’s Investigating Directorate reportedly swooped on Mapisa-Nqakula’s home in Johannesburg. They were looking to seize incriminating documents and items believed to be proceeds of crime.
The is followed by Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu’s claims that she paid Mapisa-Nqakula R2.3 million in bribes when she was minister of defence.
