Dumelang Batswana,

I hope this statement finds each of you reading it in good health and well.

I am aware that there are a litany of allegations that have been lodged against my person, in which I am being purported as an abuser and I write this statement to convey [...]

the concerted effort on my part to establish the authenticity, or lack thereof of said allegations. The allegations in question, which emanated from a tweet put out on Friday 17 April 2020 are intended to make reference to a relationship in which I was once involved ten [...]

years ago.

Before I proceed any further, I would like to highlight that I fully understand the shortcomings presented as repercussions to my female counterparts for merely existing in a patriarchal society and I would in no way use this unfair advantage to either suppress [...]

or oppress women.

I wish to take this moment to make it categorically clear that I am treating these allegations with the delicacy and urgency that they deserve, regardless of my knowledge on said allegations and I will be fully dedicated to making certain that we reach[...]

an absolving end.

I would also like to apologise for my response to this having taken much longer than would have been expected. Needless to say, catching wind of these allegations, especially because gender based violence is a topic that I feel strongly about, brought [...]

tears to my eyes. I was overwhelmed with confusion and pain. I did not know how to react.

In the interest of the public, as well as in the interest of the truth. The first fact to be established and perhaps the most paramount is that said relationship in which I was [...]

involved began gloriously in January of 2010 and continued until reaching its anticlimactic end in June of 2016.

Ten years ago, her and I were two young people that were passionately in love and had a relationship that had the same trajectory as most teenage relationships. [...]

We were happily together for six years and although those six years were made up of brilliant highs embroidered with gloomy lows, they still made up for perhaps the most memorable six years of both of our lives.

It is not merely enough, nor can I expect you to deem it as [...]

enough to take my word as surety. This is why I am tirelessly working on getting to the bottom of these allegations to either corroborate my truth or refute the same.

I wish to take this moment to make it known that gender based violence. is an issue that is close and [...]

dear to my heart, one which its severity can never be compromised. I have voluntarily taken a stand to fight against gender based violence for my nation by inspiring and empowering the young boys and men to becoming model men, strong men, men that understand that women in [...]

our nation and world are our equals and deserve the same respect and opportunities presented to men.

I would not reduce myself to being a hypocrite and deny my despicable actions; I am not the person that these allegations portray me to be.
I am not a hypocrite so as to [...]

take a national stand on a fight that I am a contributor of behind closed doors.

All of this notwithstanding, I wish to reassure you that I have always treated my former partner with the respect that she deserves. [...]

We remain amicable friends to this day & were both taken aback by these allegations.