{"id":43809,"date":"2025-12-02T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=43809"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:59:17","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigntebogo-thobejane-slams-women-praising-her-murder-accused-ex-cat-matlala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/02\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigntebogo-thobejane-slams-women-praising-her-murder-accused-ex-cat-matlala\/","title":{"rendered":"Tebogo Thobejane slams women praising her murder-accused ex Cat Matlala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153236\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153236\" class=\"wp-image-153236 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tebogo-Thobejane-slams-women-praising-her-murder-accused-ex-Cat-Matlala.jpg?resize=600%2C404&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tebogo-Thobejane-slams-women-praising-her-murder-accused-ex-Cat-Matlala.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tebogo-Thobejane-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-153236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tebogo Thobejane reacts after women crush on her murder-accused former boyfriend<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tebogo Thobejane has spoken out after watching women openly swoon over her former boyfriend, Vusimuzi \u201cCat\u201d Matlala, during his appearance before Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee.<\/p>\n<p>Matlala, who is currently behind bars at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre, is awaiting trial for allegedly plotting Tebogo\u2019s assassination, yet his testimony unexpectedly turned him into a social media sweetheart.<\/p>\n<p>Clips and photos of Matlala at the hearing were widely shared online, with some women admiring his looks and charm.<\/p>\n<p>Their reactions struck a nerve with Tebogo, who took to Instagram on Tuesday, 2 December 2025, to express her disbelief and suspicion over the sudden wave of positive attention.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of Instagram stories, she hinted that the public praise surrounding Matlala did not feel organic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy intuition is loud: something here doesn\u2019t add up. When the whole nation suddenly \u2018loves\u2019 someone they once feared, it usually means the narrative is being managed behind the scenes,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Tebogo went on to suggest that the flattering commentary may be part of a deliberate effort to soften Matlala\u2019s public image.<\/p>\n<p>She questioned how quickly public opinion seemed to shift, saying: \u201cHave you ever noticed how blogs suddenly start hyping someone, and how the tone of the whole country shifts overnight? We as a nation get captured so easily. We forget the real crimes, the people who were hurt, and the lives that were lost. We let power rewrite the truth right in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She expressed frustration at how easily narratives can be manipulated, adding that South Africans rarely challenge the sudden rewriting of reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us have experienced how quickly a narrative can be twisted to protect the right people. And honestly, we\u2019re shocked that we as South Africans don\u2019t see what\u2019s happening. We watch the story being rewritten in real time, and somehow, we accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another slide, Tebogo made it clear that no amount of online admiration or image-cleaning could erase what she endured.<\/p>\n<p>She reminded followers that behind the trending clips and commentary lies a very real and painful history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to laugh and move on, but real crimes happened, and real people suffered. PR can clean an image, but it can\u2019t fix what was destroyed. At the end of the day, prayer is the only thing we have, because God sees everything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Tebogo #Thobejane #slams #women #praising #murderaccused #Cat #Matlala<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Tebogo Thobejane reacts after women crush on her murder-accused former boyfriend Tebogo Thobejane has spoken out after watching women&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43811,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43809\/revisions\/43811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}