Embattled Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has said sorry for waving his little finger at EFF Member of Parliament Mbuyiseni Ndlozi in the National Assembly.
Gigaba waved his pinky finger at Ndlozi on Tuesday during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s heated question-and-answer session.
Matters came to a head after Ndlozi suggested that ministers use cellphones without cameras and avoid recording themselves.
His comments were in reference to Gigaba’s leaked sex tape.
He also showed the house a “burner phone”, which he said could not be hacked.
Reacting to the jibe, Gigaba, whose sex tape is now featured on a porn site, lifted his pinky finger a gesture that suggested his penis was bigger than that of Ndlozi.
EFF chief whip Floyd Shivambu complained to Speaker Baleka Mbete about the rude gesture.
Taking to Twitter yesterday morning, a remorseful Gigaba posted: “I apologise, unreservedly, for this gesture. The petty taunts that provoked it and the strain I have been taking, over the past 10 days, are no excuse for my indiscretion which is perfectly summed-up in this tweet by Sphe Dludla.”
Dludla is the business editor of the African News Agency.
He had earlier tweeted that Gigaba’s gesture to Ndlozi fed into toxic hypermasculinity stereotypes about the size of a man’s sexual organ and how this creates jealousy in men which then leads to gender-based violence and femicide.
Gender activist Nomboniso Gasa is to lodge a complaint to Parliament over Gigaba’s behaviour.
ANA