City Press reports that the woman who accused ANC head of presidency Zizi Kodwa of raping her at a private function in April last year has withdrawn her complaint against him.  

She has written a letter to ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule informing him that she wished to withdraw her formal complaint.  In the undated letter to Magashule, Kodwa’s accuser said that since bringing forward the complaint she has been “used in ANC fights” which she had “nothing to do with” and this had left her with no choice but to resort to withdrawing her complaint.  She added that she had taken the decision “consciously” and was no longer willing to participate in any of the party’s disciplinary processes “now or in the near future”.  The woman alleged in February this year that the ANC head of the presidency had drugged and raped her in a hotel in Sandton in April last year.  Kodwa responded by dismissing the allegations as being “replete with false accusations” and he described them as a “feeble yet dangerous attempt at political blackmail and manipulation”.  Kodwa at the time also implied that the accusations were born from “cowards operating from their factional dark corners, using women to fight to neutralise” him.

• Read the full original of Juniour Khumalo’s City Press report on the above at here

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