Vice president Paul Mashatile’s ex girlfriend has made another startling revelation.

She has revealed to You magazine that she was ready to marry the vice president and she got the shock of her life when she realized that he had married someone else.

Gugu, who has three children, says in November last year Paul shelled out more than R100 000 to hire cars for her daughter’s matric ball celebrations. “We supported each other in everything.”

Gugu claims she didn’t know Paul was married to his late wife, Manzi (58), when they were dating – she found out about his marriage only in 2016 at an ANC rally at Ellis Park Stadium.

She says she went up to him when he was standing with his wife and Paul introduced his wife and girlfriend to each other. It was initially “awkward”, Gugu says, but Manzi didn’t object to their relationship.

The two women would often see and greet each other at events but they weren’t close, Gugu says.

Manzi died in 2020 after a long illness, a little more than a week after Paul lost his mother, Marriam.

Gugu says cultural beliefs prevented her from attending Manzi’s funeral and lockdown regulations meant she was unable to attend Paul’s mother’s funeral.

 

 

 

 

But she shows YOU photos of the flowers and scones she bought the day before his mother’s service.

Gugu found out her relationship with Paul was over when she arrived at his home last November and security guards stopped her from entering the property.

She forced her way in, driving her red Porsche Cayenne through the gate as it closed, scratching and denting a door and a side mirror. She shows us a video of the damage to her car.

As she made her way onto the property a woman came out of the house, yelling insults at her before retreating inside. Later she learned that woman was Humile, the wife of Paul’s friend Songezo Mjongile, who died of colon cancer in 2020.

“I can’t believe that out of all the women in South Africa he chose Humile,” Gugu says.

Songezo and one of Gugu’s relatives were involved in a physical altercation years ago and since then the families haven’t been on good terms, she explains.