The MojaLove channel has withheld Jub Jub’s income as punishment for reportedly insulting his female business partner, Keabetswe Mokoena, by referring to her mother’s private parts with expletives.
Mokoena and Jub Jub, co-organizers of the Moses Kotane Arts Festival, which was scheduled for Moruleng Stadium in North West in December last year, fell out over the musician’s unilateral decision to remove some of the performers from the lineup.
The Ndikondelele hitmaker allegedly lost his mind and yelled insults at Mokoena’s mother.
This infuriated MojaLove CEO Aubrey Tau, who said Jub Jub had breached the channel’s anti-gender-based violence policy and should bear the consequences.
The CEO is a proponent of anti-gender-based violence and abhors the abuse of women and children. He felt Jub Jub should be punished severely as that would serve as a deterrent to would-be transgressors of the company’s policy,” said the channel’s executive, who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation.
Tau was also considering terminating Jub Jub’s contract, which was set to expire next month, after receiving a letter of demand from his lawyer, Baloyi-Ntsako Attorneys, requesting payment of his January wage.
“All the CEO wanted was for Jub Jub to unconditionally apologise to this woman and learn from his mistake and move on, but because of egotism and hubris, he refused,” said the executive.
The Sunday World obtained a letter from Jub Jub’s attorneys demanding that his wages be paid by Friday or face the full force of the law.
“It is our instructions that our client is contracted to you as the performer for the show called “Uyajola 99” effective 18 March 2022 in terms of a written agreement (“the contract”). the letter says in part.
“The contract, on this score, was concluded on or about 18 March 2022. Our client was on those basis (sic) contracted on a permanent basis for a duration of 1 (one) year and thus the contract as aforestated still subsists.
“Quite shockingly and to his detriment, he informs us that to date he has not received his monthly salary for January 2023, and attempts to inquire were met with aggressive non-committal responses from both yourself as the CEO and the broadcaster legal adviser, one Advocate Nandi Ndaba.”
The attorneys further claimed that withholding Jub Jub’s income was not only financially prejudicial to him, but also unlawful and violated the employment contract they had with him.
They also scolded the channel for acting like a “spaza shop” by failing to follow the process and procedures for disciplining Jub Jub if he breached his contract’s terms and conditions.
“A business of this magnitude, such as that of the broadcaster, MojaLove, cannot be run as spaza shop, it’s unprofessional, unethical and completely abhorrent. It is our informed and considered opinion that the treatment you are subjecting our client under, inclusive of non-payment of his salary is unfair, unlawful, wrongful conduct and inhumane,” reads the letter.
They vowed to take the channel to court immediately and seek a punitive cost order if it did not comply with their letter of demand.
“We have taken instructions from our client and he specifically instructed us to institute legal proceedings against yourself in your personal capacity for abuse and ill-treatment and the broadcaster for breach of contract, unfair labour practice and all other related matters he suffered,” read the letter.
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