Kasrils to give R500K defamation money to Khwezi
Pretoria - Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils will give the money from his defamation settlement to President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser Khwezi and her family.
“The money being paid out is going into a trust fund for the woman you know as Khwezi, to help her with her education and to help her ailing mother, whose house was burnt down in the wake of the case,” Kasrils told reporters outside the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.
He hoped that the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) and its chairman Kebby Maphatsoe would extend a hand of friendship to the woman known only as Khwezi. Maphatsoe is also deputy defence minister.
They agreed that Kasrils would be paid R500 000.
Kasrils sued Maphatsoe for R1m for defamation, after he claimed that Kasrils had “handpicked the woman who alleged Zuma had raped her”. Kasrils was intelligence minister at the time.