MAMELODI Sundowns coach Manqoba Mngqithi has broken his silence about his first daughter, Asavela Mqokiyana.
“I don’t want to air my dirty laundry in the public,” said the coach.
“I want to protect my daughter but at this point in time I must clear the air. I’m aware of Asavela’s claims and there is no truth to them,” said the coach.
This comes after the actress recently lambasted her father.
In a series of tweets, she wrote: “I worked from 14 years at West Street supporting my late grandmother. who worked as a domestic worker in Wentworth.
“When I went to varsity, I worked at Gateway.”
She said she later went to Joburg where she met a kind lady who accommodated her until she found a job on TV.
“Yamasimba. This was no soft life,” she said.
She called her father a deadbeat.
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I don’t need anything from him.
“Just don’t credit him for anything when it comes to my success,” she said in another post.
She said she has chosen to say no comment in all her radio and newspaper interviews.
“But he keeps doing interviews as a supportive father and that’s annoying.
“Whatever I have or will still achieve, I’ll never give credit to Manqoba Mngqithi and his money.
“Ngihluphekile ngaphumelela engekho! (I suffered and succeeded without his help),” she said. But Manqoba has rubbished Asavela’s claims.
It is not clear what prompted this outburst.
“Asavela is my first daughter but from a previous relationship. I was about to start working when her mother fell pregnant,” he said.
“From day one, I took care of Asavela and I paid damages to her family, which is why she used my surname.
He said he raised her and her other siblings.
“When she was 14, she was living with me – I paid for her school fees from primary until tertiary.
“ She did her tertiary education at Afda and I still have proof of this,” he said.
He said that their relationship soured when Asavela started working.
“Ever since she started working, she started fighting with me.Because of this tension, I don’t even know her husband and I don’t even know who took her lobola,” he said.
He said he isn’t complaining but he is worried about her.
“She has just got married and I believe she should be concentrating on her marriage,” he said.
Asavela insisted Manqoba was an absent father.
“He wasn’t there for me andI haven’t spoken to him in 15 years. I grew up in Lamontville, not in his house.
“He cannot claim my successI don’t belong with Manqoba,” she said.
“I never finished my degree at Afda because I owed fees and I informed him about this, but he refused to pay.”
