Ex Amazulu Goalkeeper Siya Mbatha Rubbishes Rumours That He Is a Male Prostitute

Ex Amazulu Goalkeeper Siya Mbatha Rubbishes Rumours That He Is a Male Prostitute

Keba Mothoagae
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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  • Former Amazulu goalkeeper Siya Mbatha has come out to strongly deny and slam rumours that he has turned to sex work
  • Mbatha says that the rumours were spread in an attempt to smear his name, describing them as disturbing
  • This turn of events comes not long after a serial r*pist was sentenced last year after being caught pretending to be a football player to lure his victims

Former AmaZulu goalkeeper Siya Mbatha has quashed shocking rumours doing the rounds on social media that he has resorted to prostitution in Durban.

Mbatha said he believes people were using the rumours to tarnish his name and image, leveraging this with bringing attention to themselves and also seeking relevance.

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Former Amazulu goalkeeper Siya Mbatha is disturbed by rumours that he is now a prostitute, describing them as disturbing.
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He said to Kick Off:

“This was done on purpose to implicate and spoil my name, but this is bad. We honestly can’t be going to such extremes just for the sake of trying to score sales or clicks at the expense of people’s careers. Now I must deal with DMs of people asking me for things that cannot be printed because they associate with such as some websites have gone as far as using my picture since I’m the Siya Mbatha they know."

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Mbatha added:

“I have a child who is going to school and do these guys realise the kind of consequences this could have if another child says some mean things to him because of what he read. Kids are mean.”

SowetanLIVE reported that last year, one Thembenkosi Ngcolomba pretended to be a famous soccer player, luring nine women on Facebook before r*ping them and robbing them of their valuables. He received six terms of life imprisonment for his crimes.

Footballer Thulani Cele goes missing on trial in Georgia, resurfaces after being arrested as victim of a scam

The family of Nedbank Cup Ke Yona talent search graduate Thulani Cele is becoming increasingly worried about his whereabouts in the eastern European country of Georgia following his arrest.

As reported by Sports Brief, Cele is from Umlazi, a township located southwest of KwaZulu-Natal's largest city Durban, and was on trial with the country's top-division side FC Gagra at the time of his disappearance.

It has emerged that Cele travelled under the impression that he was going for trials at Gagra FC, but later discovered that it was an alleged scam upon arrival in Georgia, when the team stated that it did not know of any such trial.

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