It happened, she said, during her first taste of freedom as a learner, growing up in the house of a father who was a Lesotho military commander and who, she said, would beat her mother. The next day, all those books had been stolen from the printers.”Īt the slick, well-attended launch at African Flavour bookstore in Braamfontein, where even the bottled water was branded with the name of the book – and where Kenny Kunene joined blessee Amanda Cele and Serge the International Blesser on a panel to give the lowdown on the sugar daddy situation in South Africa – Phamotse stood up and began her address by recounting the gang rape. Phamotse received a horrible shock when Bare was sent to be printed in Cape Town.

He was demanding to know what I was writing about, worried that the rape would come out.”īare has been endorsed by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who called it a “phenomenal story”, and by ANC presidential hopeful Mathews Phosa, who wrote: “The future of our literature is in this book.” “I was supposed to launch the book two months ago, but I’ve had to move the date three times because he was doing everything he could to block it. She refused to reveal the man’s name to City Press. Phamotse is now on a mission to educate young women about the realities and dangers of the blessee life. The man leading the pack – then a powerful local government official – “is now a deputy minister in Zuma’s Cabinet”, she told City Press at the event.Īnd her rapist, she claims, has actively tried to block the launch of Bare, a work of fiction based on Phamotse’s own life as a model and blessee – before she became the businesswoman she is today.

When she was 17 years old, and at a club called Whispers in Bloemfontein, she was gang-raped by five men who had hired the club for a party while they were attending a conference. Popular author Jackie Phamotse dropped a bombshell during the launch of her second novel in Johannesburg yesterday. At the launch of her new novel, Jackie Phamotse has spoken out about being gang-raped by five men when she was 17, one a powerful politician.

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