Suspended for 'flirting' with JZ
'FLASHER': GCIS photographer Siyasanga Mbambani and deputy prez Cyril Ramaphosa lag lekker 'FLASHER': GCIS photographer Siyasanga Mbambani and deputy prez Cyril Ramaphosa lag lekker
Siyasanga Mbambani, an assistant director of media production in the presidential unit of the Government and Communications Information System (GCIS), was suspended on Friday.
This took place after a long drawn-out battle with her boss, Elmond Jiyane, the deputy director of media production in the department.
The GCIS suspended Mbambani for “violating departmental policies by quoting the department on social media without authorisation”.
Mbambane, 27, a photographer, alleges that Jiyane had falsely accused her of acting seductively towards Zuma and Ramaphosa by being scantily dressed and flashing her “full bums” and breasts at the pair while taking pictures of them during official events.
She cited a post State of the Nation Address cocktail party in 2015 in Cape Town, when she had taken a selfie with Zuma.
Jiyane allegedly told her: “You asked to take a photo with the president, and you grabbed him closer, he pointed at the breast area.”
Mbambani denied exposing herself to Zuma, and said it was the president who had asked to take a picture with her.
She was also hauled over the coals for addressing Ramaphosa on his first name, and alleged that Jiyane had told her the complaints about her clothes had come from Zuma himself.
She claims the accusations were a result of a power struggle, after Zuma once allegedly told Jiyane to be careful because she, Mbambani, was going to take over.
Contacted for comment on Saturday, Jiyane said: “These wild allegations were dismissed by the department and I was found not guilty of these manufactured lies.”