Mandela’s grandson admits abuse in video

A video of former President Nelson Mandela's grandson admitting to abusing his girlfriend is making the rounds on social media. The video had also been shared on Instagram by Graca Machel's daughter Josina, an activist against gender-based violence. ‘My name is Mbuso Mandela (and) I am a woman abuser. I put my girlfriend's head through the window and through the Trellidor. I strangled her, she needs me to admit it, so I am admitting it in front of everybody; to everybody, thank you,’ Mandela said in the video. A report on the News24 site notes that Mandela, the son of the late President's son Makgatho, made the recording on his Instagram live feed. Josina Machel said ‘the video has shattered us as family’. ‘In my personal capacity, as a family member and founder of Kuhluka Movement (a non-profit civil society mass organisation directed at combating the violation of rights of women) we condemn these actions in the strongest terms. A video of a woman who identified herself as Mandela's partner and claiming the alleged abuse never happened, had also been doing the rounds on social media. In 2015, Mandela appeared in court for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting a teenager at a Johannesburg bar. The case was later withdrawn.