
Norma Mngoma compares ex Malusi Gigaba to Diddy in shock tell-all
From 2014 to 2020, the IT businesswoman was married to the former Minister of Home Affairs and later Finance.
Their R6 million wedding and marriage crumbled after a series of Gigaba's alleged extra-marital affairs, which he has publicly denied.
Mngoma made the bombshell allegations in a tell-all on Showmax's Untied , which Gigaba tried to block from airing unsuccessfully.
During the hour-long episode, Norma Mngoma delved into her relationship with Malusi Gigba – whom she did not name – which began with him courting her whilst he was still legally married to another woman.
Soon, the couple – known as the 'Gigabytes,' – had two children together and had gone public with their relationship.
In 2014, they tied the knot in an extravagant wedding worth around '6 or 7 million'.
Norma Mngoma said she received countless messages from women who claimed that they had sexual relations with her then-husband. She brushed them off, as he claimed that they were 'jealous' of their relationship.
In 2020, Malusi Gigaba was also caught with his pants down in a video that went viral on social media. In a clip that shocked the Twitter [now X] timeline, Malusi was seen self-pleasuring himself, uttering the words, 'Imagine this in your mouth.'
Mngoma claims that Gigaba deceived the public into thinking the video was personal between him and his wife.
Claiming to be lied to and gaslit by her spouse, she told Untied presenter Relebogile Mabotja of the video: 'I saw it the day it was leaked, but we were blackmailed [by the woman] for six months [prior to this]. They were demanding money; they wanted a million.
'He acted like it was our video, but we've never done a video together, so why [lie]?
'He knew very well that it was a video of himself alone. So he lied until the day the video was leaked.
'When I heard that it was trending on Pornhub, I laughed. I used to say to him, 'There are so many things you lied about, one day you will be exposed. '
'They finally got you'.
Norma Mngoma compared her now ex-husband to the US rapper P Diddy, who has been accused of sexual assault, sex trafficking and harassment.
She said of his official business trips to other provinces: 'Whenever you leave, you pack oils. You're like Puff Daddy [P Diddy] now. Why would you pack like that? It means whenever you leave home, you are prepared for those things.'
Also in the interview, Norma Mngoma claimed that Malusi Gigaba stored nudes from other women on his iPad and watched porn while he did work for his ministerial duties.
'He was so used to it', she said.
Mngoma also claimed Gigaba enjoyed calling her derogatory names during their intimate moments in the bedroom.
She continued: 'We can be naughty, but don't degrade me. He loves that'.
After accessing his phone to see incriminating messages, Mngoma finally caught her husband in the act when she arrived home early from a trip to find him in bed with another woman.
'The lady was in bed. She was trying to cover herself…I took off his glasses, I tried to beat him up', she said.
In late 2020, Norma Mngoma started divorce proceedings, and in a few months, she was officially divorced from Malusi Gigaba, the father of her two children.
She reverted to her maiden surname 'Mngoma', appeared as a keynote speaker at various business conferences and awards ceremonies – particularly those honouring females – and even launched her own charity, the Norma Mngoma Foundation, aimed at women and child upliftment.
From being hailed a 'trophy wife', Mngoma said she saw herself as an 'independent woman'.
'I am free and I'm independent,' she told the media of her new identity.
Mngoma would testify against her husband in the Zondo Commission about her ex's alleged state capture dealings with the Guptas.
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