JOHANNESBURG : South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has said he used to be the target of extortion makes an attempt after a non-public intercourse video used to be stolen following a hacking incident.
Gigaba said in tweets posted Sunday that he took the exceptional step of addressing the video because it used to be circulating in "political circles".
"It was stolen when my communication got illegally intercepted/my phone got hacked, in 2016/17," wrote Gigaba in tweets, the source of which have been confirmed to AFP through his spokesman Vuyo Mkhize.
"This video has been at the centre of a number of blackmail and extortion attempts, dating back to the period immediately following my appointment as Minister of Finance, on 31 March 2017, all of which I have steadfastly refused to entertain."
Gigaba used to be propelled from a extra junior ministerial role to the put up of finance minister remaining 12 months. He took over the Home Affairs ministry in February 2018.
Gigaba said that he had reported the case to law enforcement and intelligence businesses.
"I take this opportunity to publicly apologise, in advance, to the rest of my family -- especially my kids, my mom and my in-laws -- and the South African public for the pain and embarrassment the likely wider distribution of this private material will cause," he added.
Gigaba described the leak as "gross invasion of privacy", stressing a "clear absence of a public interest justification" in distributing the clip which has been broadly circulated on social media.
Gigaba said in tweets posted Sunday that he took the exceptional step of addressing the video because it used to be circulating in "political circles".
"It was stolen when my communication got illegally intercepted/my phone got hacked, in 2016/17," wrote Gigaba in tweets, the source of which have been confirmed to AFP through his spokesman Vuyo Mkhize.
"This video has been at the centre of a number of blackmail and extortion attempts, dating back to the period immediately following my appointment as Minister of Finance, on 31 March 2017, all of which I have steadfastly refused to entertain."
Gigaba used to be propelled from a extra junior ministerial role to the put up of finance minister remaining 12 months. He took over the Home Affairs ministry in February 2018.
Gigaba said that he had reported the case to law enforcement and intelligence businesses.
"I take this opportunity to publicly apologise, in advance, to the rest of my family -- especially my kids, my mom and my in-laws -- and the South African public for the pain and embarrassment the likely wider distribution of this private material will cause," he added.
Gigaba described the leak as "gross invasion of privacy", stressing a "clear absence of a public interest justification" in distributing the clip which has been broadly circulated on social media.
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