Natasha Thahane said her connection to Baleka Mbete helped her get funded for her US studies in 2017.Actress Natasha Thahane topped the Twitter trends on Saturday morning after her interview on MacG'swhere she revealed that she received over R1m in funds from the government after reaching out to politician Baleka Mbete.
Natasha, who is the granddaughter of Desmond Tutu, told MacG that when she went to study in the US in 2017, she need help to finance her studies at the New York Film Academy. She added that she then “made a call” to Baleka and asked her to help get her money to study. Baleka then allegedly reached out to the department of arts to arrange the money — in excess of R1m — that went towards Natasha's studies.“I asked Mam’ Baleka and was like, ‘Mama, I need to go back to school. I’ve been accepted... I don’t know what I’m going to do, can I have funds? Please arrange something for me.
She didn't say she asked for and received a million because she was afraid it would be too much. But qhubekani TIMES LIES
Girl didn't understand assignment
Bizani uBaleka Mbethe ezapha
The sad truth some people need to hear
Yho hektik 🥺 it’s even on the news
So Natasha has actually put mama Baleka in hot water! Yes uzobaleka.
Yosinda ngoba ovelile wena opost lomsangano
She should be making money moves like Nomzamo Mbatha, Thuso Mbedu , trevor noah ppl who worked up the ladder to be there in America making us proud n putting us on the map..Buh is Okay i hope the production company she opening hires ppl ka protocol
'Please arrange something for me' That line right there!!!! 🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮
Jesuu but she said they paid for the first term which could amount to +/- R300K
Can I ask Tat' Gwede (Mantashe) ama Tauzend (R500k) for this December I wanna have fun
Rakgadi_EM I always knew that this mama is a tsotsi Gogo
To those who keep saying she got money from Baleka not Gov. Niright kahle emakhanda noma niyazenzisa
She does mention that she doesn't like interviews but that day she was Natasha. Whoever is next on the MAG show is about to catch fire.
Did she say 'pleas arrange something for me' okanye niyizubunu as usual
You Journalists are lazy. Nihlula MacG Cabanga
Mam Baleka must give me a job yaz🥺
Balkan Mbethe must give right of reply, on McGee's show NatashaMillion
nomonde_nn cav now dawg 😂
A lot of comments seems to be okaying this type of crime...worse coming from women, perpetrated by women Its the strangest thing...This country is full of hypocrites you love crime admit it...
But seriously guys! the RET forces made it very clear that once a fraction of a loot is used to pay for study related costs for a black child, the remaining loot and the perpetrator(s) turn clean and have no case to answer to. How can you struggle to understand that simple rule🤷♂️
I really don't know why people act like this, money was not stolen but it was for a good purpose- shame
ChrisExcel102 🤨👀 it's trending because of you. 😁 you are the president 🙏
Mxm she's horrible, did she then wait for before spilling the beans?
unionist_trade Crooks three of them
On Desmond Tutu ....I have so many words so rather watch here 📺
Nothing wrong here
Yerrr ☹️
It sounds like a good story to tell, but we all know the cost of education is high in SA today, but 'R 1m' for a student? Hibooo!!! Honestly this does not make sense at all. SA's shinanigans are in every corner.
So brave and I love the fact that u know what u want and u don't wait for things to happen but u make them happen, all the best 😉
Hector_Maoto Lol Journalism in the mud.
Sometimes I don't blame this government for treating people like shit!!!...it's because of you ignorant people That we are in this favour flippen situation...for starters!!!stop Voting for ANC ASB TOG...we are(90%) in the same struggling boat with no Mama too help us. Wake Up!!!!
She should have rather spoken about her relationship/s.
Lucky for her she is a female ,it's tough for us males, even bursaries and job opportunities are given to women not to deserving candidates . It's a curse to be a man in SA especially under this government
It's ok life goes on even if we get nothing, black child it's possible let's keep.pushing
Heban she didn't get over a million. She got less than that because she laid for the first semester only and her granny covered the outstanding balance with her pension money! Stop spreading lies bloody fools!
XibaloN Even students who do medical studies in Cuba so they can save lives dnt get this much
Reason why they must all(3) go down with uNathi Mthethwa
Island_Tribe17 Same WhatsApp group: First, tell us, how you get government advertisement?
Big mouth with no brain 🧠
They can only help family relatives en friends ...if i can apply or ask for help they wiil regret me ...hhayi emzansi salwela ubandkukulo kodwa bina basalwenza
Some are more equal than others 😐
This country is very rich but only for the connected ones, let them go and vote for them in 2024 again, I'm not bitter for assistance you received but it must be a norm to everyone irrespective of connection.
A question to Natasha Thahane,,,,, Is acting a skill or a talent
Strange how journalism of late work times live
Big up to baleka
Straight from the horse’s mouth. This is not hearsay, girl told us all we need to know
I guess we ain't shiii ,the way I applied for funding in the government,departments for years I've been applying for funds ,sponsors you name it I have all the documents you can think of even the best business plans that will never fail.till today I even gave up. I tried shame
There are a number of people who get funding from both private & public organizations (they just don't see why they should tell the entire SA about it, if anything, majority of them don't have Twitter accounts). Some comments here are just a personal attack for obvious reasons😊
Pure bullshit n rubbish government who's studies with a milli
Amen kodwa sacela uqeshwa ko masipala...
I do not see anything wrong
ChouTshokolo Madoda?
KingM_1st The ROT in this party and so deeply embedded Die varke het julle fokken skaamte opgevreet No character no conscience
Try NSFAS, bathi iyabhadala
Favor is unfair
Could not hear...what was she studying?
Nepotism is real in this country. Just because your grandfather was a sell- out to this rainbow nation, it does not mean you should keep processes that we average people have to go through. How dump can you be Snitching on yourself by glorifying this corruption.
Must be nice Yaz🤔
If all the anc kids nd grandchildren are benefitting from the government.. Vincent Smith anc cadre did the same for his kids... What are they doing with the stolen money from government and corruption? Asking for a friend
So if I can ask for just 10k for m studies will I get funds from the government
All the state capture commission enquiry funding should have went to MacGUnleashed and his crew because clearly they are doing a better job!
🤦🏾
I want R33k from that money before ke....
Arrange something for me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙆♀️
Lol in south Africa everyone is the government and in the parliament they can send someone to prison on Twitter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
sbwl a rich aunty with connections 😥😥😥😥
ANC scams supported by media at its best, this is the beginning of such stories. De aim is to protect the Whites favorites black person Cyril Ramaphosa.
The little Bishop's family has been getting kickbacks all along.
Most of these issues are easily solved on the ballot paper. 2024 remember this story
Uyichazelani ke ngoku?
Baleka uzobaleka🤷🤷
TimesLive is nothing without podcastandchill MacGUnleashed 😂😂😂 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
Yoooooo😭😭😭
It’s my first time I see “namedropping” backfire so super hard 🙆🏾♂️ I am sure Natasha can afford to pay back whatever money she received from the department of arts and culture, it’s not worth it.
eugene mthethwa from trompies will cry when her hears this south africa is a fucked up country
You should have watched the video you idiots. She said the costs for the entire year were about R1m plus.. But she had only asked for funding for the 1st Semester 🙄. It was not R1m 🙄. In fact, you don't even know if she received the R250 maximum allowable amount 🙄
Kuya ngokuba ungubani wazibani usaziwa ngubani aph'eMzantsi kungenjalo yifaaaa
Another example of ANC corruption! I’m sure every student in the country would like 1 million to study overseas!
Mind you some of us are unemployed cos University can't give us our qualifications because of outstanding debts, we can't even apply for jobs, thy even refused to give us a mere Academic record. But others have privilege to receive 1m+, no wonder they wer quiet during Feesmustfal
Nazomagenge2 But this is SOP in SA, business, tenders, services, its about who you are and who you know, pls don't act surprised.
Smoking gun.
Privilege, privilege, privilege !!!! knows no boundaries
Young lady if you think what was done by Gogo mbete to you was wrong go to HAWKS both of you must be arrested,but one day you'll burn in hell,you are abusing our emotions is enough, your grandfather surname won't help you in hell.
Here is the VIDEO
I’m waiting for someone to create a space so that we can discuss this matter 🤣🤣
MacG is a source for abo Times Live. Phakama MacG, you are serious force mfana 😂😂😂😂
No she didn't say that, clearly you are selective in your listening. Go back to the podcastwithmacg and listen carefully.
The connected ones ,just ask to study in New York while we have Afda ,MbalulaFikile Let's forget about renewal the likes of Natasha will vote ANC
Corruption ea manyala sies
Watch how this will spun that it was a loan from her private money ....
Yoh the reporter😂😂😂
MYANC created an ANIMAL FARM 🐷 in the New democratic South Africa 🇿🇦
That's how this thing works ... Applications of those close to those that are close to those that are close ...X1000, to those that process application go through majority of time.
It's the word 'arrange' for me
mashiane05 Baleka does not care about welfare of South African children or people, Next thing she does something, she does this..Anc leaders confirm that voters are right by rejecting them,Come 2024,Natasha must vote them to power, not ordinary kids who stands with placards asking for help.
This is utter rubbish, ke masepa ntho eo. Many deserving kids cant get money to study at lical university but a person is given our money to study abroad.
Natasha wanted to brag to us the poor masses that she’s politically connected, one fone call and money was in, no heads will roll, no one will be held accountable and that’s mzansi for you
She did not say she got R1 million. In the interview she says, her grandma paid the other half. She specifically said she didn’t ask for all of it from the department.
Pretoria central...I also courier nationwide
Students are shot at, killed, jailed for asking for free higher education, and they are sent to myNSFAS to apply for funding. Which processes were followed for the funding to be paid out to Natasha, Which it is not available to other students? Baleka Mbete must payback the money
garnierUSA your embassador
Mam Baleka was like 'I'm only one call away, I'll be there to save the day'
Reading the comments; 🙄. Shouldn’t we be congratulating Ms Mbete for her assistance? 🤷♂️ I mean she helped this girl out. I think we are just too negative about the whole thing.
Yoh yoh yoh 💀💀💀
That’s why celebrities always sells us out, their beneficiaries of corruption, i was shocked to see VuyoMvoko going back to SABC after the SABC 8 catastrophe
I think people will now literally run away from Mac G and his podcast, he always complaint that people are scared to come to his show now they are really going to blue tick him.
Natasha needed funding and she thought of ways of getting it and she went with what was her best option and it worked, soo Natashas academics were payed for, wena kunguwe wawuzoyeka ithuba Eli Inocent ulibona?
Can tell us what happened to that COVID-19 500bn. Nathasha is a small fish
That time they giving internships to people who went and finished school. And others get millions to finish school.
SportArtsCultur NathiMthethwaSA MKhumalo___ I think we deserve explanation as South Africans/ taxpayers.
....from taxpayers, you mean. Sigh. it is so easy to spend other people's money.
Corruption on its highest level, bo Natasha bayasinyela yaz
This story is a wrong narrative cause the other side of coin is not verified.Whow 1m unbelievable sound to nice 2 be true
What's the use of having connections and not using them we all know celebrities and their kids have special treatment
Ayi-ke, for Cde Magashule_Ace this would’ve been a straight ticket to jail. Not fundraising; not indirectly asking companies to assist; but rather channeling government money! Even before the trial, the judge would’ve been thinking about justifying a multiple-decades sentence.
Is it a loan like NSFAS or ke imphiwa fela,
Adding petrol to the fire.. (If someone just got 1m from Zuma using the state) the south African media will going crazy. All the news channel Zuma,Zuma,Zuma.. The level of nepotism is just something else
Moja sagwe wa iphihla. But then this was public funds das why a chologile 🤣
I love the fact that it reached our papers n it will draw more attention
Let the music play!!!
Why do journalist wait to get such news from social media? Go to every Arts & Culture department from National to Municipal and request a list of beneficiaries for the last 5yrs. You will be shocked. NatashaThahane MacG Baleka Sizwe Unathi Julius_S_Malema
MacG saw kuth Natasha uyazshisa 🔥 wayshayisa ngomoya le ndaba nicely.. but ke sizwile.. Nam ngayfuna for acting Nkosiyam 🙈
MYANC EFFSouthAfrica Our_DA Action4SA Julius_S_Malema jsteenhuisen CyrilRamaphosa ParliamentofRSA ANCParliament
I also want to go back to school....
Natasha_Thahane thank you for giving us this very useful information ❤️😘
We all deserve second chance I'm always rejected by Nfsas i never use that bursary,bit they say i did.🤞😭😭
OupaBaloyi7 Here is the reason why I don't bother myself with news publications because of the nonsense they publish. Natasha never said she got over R1 million from government but that she spent over R1m on her studies and she requested assistance for 1 term. 🚮🚮🚮Do better🤮🤮.
Lest we forget...the same Baleka was once flagged for obtaining a fraudulent drivers license in Mpumalanga. These are her things.
It's the quoted statement for me 🤣
Natasha Thahane being a granddaughter of Desmond Tutu opens many doors that an ordinary folk like me wouldn't open. This is South Africa
She NEVER got a million. The fees were over a mill
Know MAcG is giving content to the newspapers 😂😂😂😂
Zizokhala manje
Niice
Another example of MYANC slate politicians treating the public purse like it’s their own.
Brings back Supra Mahumapelo’s son… Denel and R1.2 million… Yeah neh
Mbete wud've hve told her 2 fuck off if she was no body's daughter. Mxm prostate wz busy telling us hw corrupt Zuma wz, yet his family members dn't hesitate 2 use unlawful ways 2 benefit themselves. Other children who needed the bursary followed the lawful procedure and applied
Politician’s kids are really enjoying a soft life while we slave ourselves to death…💀💀💀
Corruption_SA PublicProtector please investigate 🔎
The Desmond Tutu foundation sent hundreds of South African students to US Universities in the 80s/90s. His offspring also need assistance in their time of need - their granddad helped lots of prominent South Africans. This is nothing.
Dept of sports arts & culture cannot even provide Covid relief funds to starving artists, but can fund 1 person over R1 million to study overseas because she's connected to Baleka Mbethe.
Nice life problems
That time we must maintain a 75% average in order to get funding. That's so f'd up
Ehe... Coffee... Tiye!!! Thina sigudle ama'bentshi si'applyar...
Abo Natasha they never learn, how can you say this on public platform, yabo manje ziyakhala 🤦
If it's government money, i hope procedures and routine applies to everyone were followed in this case otherwise this is going to be yet another corruption, nepotism or whatever the case might be ,time will tell
Waze wazifaka engxavuleni losisi. Inkanankana inkinga uqobo lwayo. Isihhikahhika sengxaki.
She never said this at all
Nathasha Was this a loan? Are you paying back the money or have you paid back the R 1 million? What kind of funding was this?
“Please arrange something for me” aera 1 million 😭
Just like that 🤌🏾
Can I be adopted in parliament or in ANC Cabinet 😭😭😭
If we had opposition parties and activists there would be consequences. This is our hard earned tax
This country is loaded, you just need to know the right people
Blessed
There's something that this MacG fella does to his guests. Most of them seem to lose their minds around him🙃
So Ace charged for what.
Jiki jiki she'll say the money came from her own Pocket
😳
Auditor general why didn't you see this DubaiwithDuduzane
The tax we pay is for service delivery and to help the poor, not to fund celebrities acting courses.
Blu3_aries360 still followed bro... let's have lunch before we go to the next tweet
Corruption is real In this country
No wonder natasha never critics the anc thats why corruption!!!😏
AdvBMkhwebane here is a winnable case to score some points...You been taking an L for sometimes and that doesn't sit well with me.
Just like that🤷🏽♂️
Meanwhile for us to get funding we must provide Certified copy of your ID Proof of address Certified ID copies of your parents Affidavit Death certificates Bank statements ID copies of all your siblings Application form And you will still be rejected!😭😭😭
I see nothing wrong here..... Natasha has connections and y'all don't.....
But can we blame her for using the resources at her disposal 😂
Zondo commission u up.
Lapho umuntu wakhona ubeyowenza iActing nje qha . Nothing useful 🥱
they go the their news from the same App we all got the news from like we just didn’t see the whole clip, journalist tsa mo South Africa are just useless to the core
I also need R1M, Mbethe nmbr 🤷♂️
SthembiD Oza bapatiswa ngomlilo 🔥🔥🔥
Her grandfather has struggle credentials. 😷😷
I've always said that South African celebs aren't the smartest pick of the bunch. Like how do you engage in an unlawful act like this and then come to national platform and out yourself and all the people who helped you out. Lol now two ANC members need to explain lol
Ah Damn!
Valencia once said ' we are funding corruption' and this is what she meant MasekoValencia
ChrisExcel102 Corruption everywhere
Mbete can't Baleka from this now.
'Ask, you shall receive.'
In Zulu they say : inhlanhla yakhe. Kanti what does it mean to say you are lucky to have been born by/friends with/loved by so&so. Inhlanhla yakhe....good for her.
Benefits of being a celebrity .how many live would have been changed with that money 🤷♂️
Natasha Thabane involved in ANC corruption period she didn't benefit once been benefiting till to date looting the the state money
templet04415057 The proximity to power.
Imagine how many students would have been funded. Going to US as if your poor acting skills would improve. Connection will be the end of our country. Taxpayers money gone to waste here. That time farmers are struggling to get funding.
😂😂she must appear before the Zondo Commission and Mama Baleka Mbethe. They committed crime of corruption.
Corruption!!!!
Privileged of having a famous grandfather, imagine being given 1 million rand & some change by the same department that rejected bursary application from people who actually applied for the bursary. corruption
typically ANC banana republic mentality. no ethics, oversight or morals. Can we imagine how much public funds has been squandered by the ANC as favour to friends and other graft? Really this party is so evil. this is so wrong
Agenda 👀
Ordinary South Africa will be declined immediately 🤞 be of no connections 😭😭
While our poor students are still owing institutions in order to get their certificate but no one is willing to help them because they don't have relatives/ connection to corrupt ANC officials
At least you've managed to get through her i wonder how will i get through any politician and ask for funds or advice because i only see them o tv Poor me 😒😒😒😒😒
Makes you wonder it's her and who that gets millions thrown in their direction, when we often get told there's no budget!
ChrisExcel102 ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
So the quality of education she got failed to teach her not to brag about the corrupt way b she got the funds..
Leave Natasha alone , this world is about who you know. There's many students in Cuba government is sponsoring their school, Even SG Ace Magashule is taking care of many children so stop your fucken nonsense about R1 million for Natasha school 🤷
From social media, to mainstream media, to Malema and we have another corrupt ANC member in Court 😂🤷
Haibo Natasha, unemali mos. Kutheni engacelanga ku Steers or Skeem Sam😄🤣😂
Total disregard for stipulated procedures to acquire funding . Public funds were misused by the Department of Arts Culture and Mam Baleka Mbethe violated her parliamentary ethics code somebody please call the SIU coz the amount is over 100k we want consequence management!
ChrisExcel102 😂😂
The corruption in our country, yet we have millions of deserving student whom are denied the opportunities to study. Corruption and nepotism are a problem in SA.
Sisekakeni
Itjoo 😭😭😭😭🙆
Yah neh mzansi
Natasha rn : Ngaze ngazisola 😭
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