Popular South African football commentator Baba Mthethwa has claimed that his ex wife hired a hitman to kill him over her claim that he failed to repay a R1million debt he owes to her.
Baba Mthethwa and his ex-wife, Kgomotso Koosimile have been at each other’s throats ever since their divorce in 2017.
In the latest installment of the long running saga, Baba Mthethwa claimed that Koosimile had hired a gunman who promised to end his life after a football match in Soweto.
“I received a call while I was working at Orlando Stadium and this person told me that he was waiting for me outside the stadium and after the game he was going to send me to the cleaners,” Baba Mthethwa told Sunday World.
“Imagine threatening a disabled person? Even Kgomotso called me nyawana (an amputee). She is crazy that woman. I reported these threats to the people I trust and if Kgomotso wants war, I am ready.
“She can even bring an army and she will find me ready, waiting for them. I am tired of her shit!” he said.
Baba Mthethwa denied that he owed his former spouse R1million.
“We were married in community of property and when we divorced I didn’t get even a single cent. She was supposed to give me my 50% of the estate, but she refused,” he said.
Koosimile has in the past claimed that she was the one that put the football icon on the map as he was broke when they met.
“When I met Baba [Mthethwa] he had nothing, and he did not even have a place to stay,” Koosimile said, adding that she put him up in her townhouse in Ekurhuleni.
In return, she claimed Baba Mthethwa had left her saddled with debt.
“This guy had turned my life into hell, and I was living in fear for years as those people whom he owed threatened my life and demanded that I pay his debt or else they would take my assets.
“Since we divorced, I have been getting people knocking on my door looking for Baba, claiming that they are owed. Some were debt collectors, and I ended up getting a private investigator to locate him as I was not getting assistance from where he works.
“His employers told me that it was not their problem, and this put me under a lot of strain.”
