Former SA Idols judge Mara Louw has handed Hlaudi Motsoeneng the proverbial wooden mic by telling him in a series of WhatsApp messages that she wants nothing to do with his new political party.
In text messages which The Star has seen, the renowned performer told Motsoeneng that she will pay back the money she borrowed from him after falling on hard times recently.
She added that her attorneys were drafting a letter to the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) to be removed as a parliamentary candidate for the African Content Movement (ACM).
Louw was placed second behind Motsoeneng, the organisation’s founding president, on the party’s parliamentary list, which was gazetted on the IEC’s official website two weeks ago.
Her U-turn on Motsoeneng came a few days after her alleged affiliation to ACM was made public, but now she wants none of it.
“I’m afraid I cannot be part of
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