DJ Fresh and Euphonik on Monday said they’ve been cleared of rape charges.
The FeU duo, whose real names are Thato Sikwane and Themba Nkosi, faced a rape charge after a woman accused the duo of raping and drugging her, along with three other women, at a party 10 years ago.
The pair was fired by Primedia Broadcasting last week Wednesday.
Monday, in a joint statement, Fresh and Euphonik said that their rape case had been dismissed by prosecutors and declared null and void.
“We are pleased to state that, after considering all of the evidence collected while investigating the claim made by [the accuser] against us, the Chief Prosecutor has dismissed the allegations on the basis that the allegations are without merit,” the statement read.
— DJ Fresh (Big Dawg) (@DJFreshSA) February 15, 2021
“The docket has been marked NOLLE PROSEQUI. As we’ve said before, these are false allegations and we are deeply saddened that GBV, a serious crisis in South Africa, was weaponised in this manner.
“A huge thank you to all of our family, friends, supporters and to our legal team.”
The woman took to twitter in January, with this claim: “@DJFreshSA & @euphonik will you ever acknowledge drunking (drugging) me & further raping me? I was completed (completely) drugged I don't whether you BOTH raped me or 1 of you did & you later laughed about it the next morning saying we (me & 3 girls) were so drunk we kept blacking out but nasidlwengula (you raped us)”.
The djs have denied all the allegations levelled against them.