Minnie Dlamini Sues MacG and Sol Phenduka For Millions
TV and radio star Minnie Dlamini has taken legal action against Podcast and Chill hosts MacGyver “MacG” Mukwevho and Sol Phenduka, dragging them to the Equality Court for hate speech, unfair discrimination, and gender-based harassment.
This comes after a shocking episode in which MacG claimed Dlamini’s relationships fail because of a supposed “bad smell,” while also branding her a gold digger who dates wealthy men for money. His remarks were widely slammed by the public as misogynistic and disgusting, prompting a weak apology—one Dlamini firmly rejected.
Instead, she is asking the court to make the duo pay: R1 million in damages to her, and another R1.5 million to a women’s organisation.
Dlamini believes the insults weren’t an isolated slip-up. In her court papers, she accuses the duo of consistently targeting women with hateful language. She pointed to a 2021 episode featuring rapper Jub Jub, where MacG asked about women he had “smashed.” Dlamini argued that using such language, especially in a country plagued by gender-based violence, was dangerous and helped normalise abuse.
She said the pair reduced women to sexual objects—not just once, but over multiple episodes; by repeatedly using violent and degrading metaphors to describe women’s bodies and relationships.
Dlamini also revealed that after she spoke out against their behaviour, the podcast fired back. In a follow-up episode, the hosts mocked her qualifications to host the Homeground sports show, claiming she wasn’t a “real woman who knows sports.”
She believes this was an attempt to punish her for standing up to them. She says they later joked about her divorce, implied she married for money, and painted her as someone who trades sexual favours for wealth—allegations she strongly denies.
In another episode cited in court, the podcast discussed businessman Edwin Sodi’s alleged “hit list” of women he had slept with—referring to some as “premium stock.” Dlamini says this language stripped women of dignity, reducing them to “disposable goods” and “sexual acquisitions.”
The final straw, she says, was when the hosts falsely accused her of cheating on her ex-husband Quinton Jones and suggested she acted like a prostitute—one of the oldest and most demeaning stereotypes used to shame women.
Dlamini says the podcast has a track record of using violent, dehumanising language to target women, and now she’s taking a stand—not just for herself, but for women across South Africa.
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