"I
know that you want to sleep with my wife, that is why you want me to sleep in
the police cells all the weekend"
The details about
allegations of sex starvation emerged during a recent assault case which was
opened by Sylvia, Maponyane's wife, at the Midrand police station last month.
The case also left
Maponyane fuming and he allegedly accused police officers at the station of
arresting him so they could sleep with his wife while he was in custody.
Midrand police station
commander Leshoka Mahloromela confirmed receiving a report from one of his
officers who arrested Maponyane.
The officer alleged
that Maponyane accused them of sleeping with his wife.
Mahloromela said the
officers made the allegations in a report that also details allegations of
interference by a high-ranking police official to get the case squashed.
The station boss said
his officer said Maponyane spoke in Setswana and said: "Ke a tseba gore le
nyaka go nyoba mosadi waka, that's why le nyaka go ntshwara gore ke robale
diseleng weekend ka moka."
The alleged statement
by Maponyane, loosely translated, means "I know you want to sleep with my
wife, that is why you want me to sleep in the police cells all weekend."
However, the station
commander said upon investigating Maponyane's allegations, the former Kaizer
Chiefs goal poacher revealed that he only asked his wife if the person who had
called him was a genuine police officer or one of her boyfriends.
On the assault
allegations brought by his wife, the station commander said Maponyane admitted
to moering his wife but said he did so because she was nagging him and was also
blocking him from leaving the house to go to work in Durban.
The police said
Maponyane claimed that he only pushed her and she fell to the floor after an
argument.
Maponyane said:
"I'm not going to respond to this s**t. I don't want anything to do with
this s**t because I don't remember accusing anyone of anything."
Shockingly, the wife
also alleged to police that Maponyane had not touched her in bed in four years,
claiming that all she has been receiving from him was constant abuse.
The police chief said
that the former soccer player refused to speak about the sex starvation
allegations, stating that he won't speak to the police officers about his
family matters.
Maponyane was also
quizzed about a police chaplain who called the arresting officer asking him to
drop the case.
The station commander
said the officer reported that the chaplain told him Maponyane wanted to deal
with the matter in a spiritual way.
Mahloromela said the
officer refused to drop the case and instead opted to interrogate Maponyane
about the matter because his wife had told him that she had previously opened
cases against him but they had all come to nothing.
The station commander
said during the interrogation about the allegation to squash the case,
Maponyane admitted that he had contacted a lot of people asking them to help
him with the case.
"He said he spoke
to his pastor. He admitted that he had sent the officer's contact details to
one of the police chaplains so he could help him to deal with the matter
spiritually," said Mahloromela.
Maponyane's wife told
Sunday World that her husband lied to the police about the whole case so he
could get bail.
"I never stood in
his way and blocked him from leaving the house. We had an argument because I
asked him why he was embarrassing himself out there. That's because I have been
receiving calls from one of his girlfriends asking me why am I still in this
marriage because he has nothing to offer in bed. I only asked him why he was
going around exposing our family secrets to his girlfriends, and he called me
names and assaulted me with a coat hanger," she said.
Sylvia said during the
argument Maponyane also accused her of sleeping around with police officers and
ordered her to go sleep with them instead of accusing him of going to see young
girls.
She denied having
relationships with police officers and said her husband was shifting the goal
posts.
She refused to comment
about specific sex starvation allegations. "All I can say is that I
haven't seen a man in four years," she said.
One of the arresting
officers confirmed he was accused by Maponyane of sleeping with his wife, but
he denied the allegation, saying the soccer legend just wanted an excuse not to
be arrested.
"I reported the
matter to the station commander and he is better placed to comment. All I can
say is that I was just doing my job," he said.
According to a police
statement, Sylvia sustained an injury above her left eye where she had just
undergone surgery.
"The complainant
had a visible injury on the left eye and she has alleged that she was assaulted
with a coat hanger over the argument," reads the statement.