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Cape Town – Political analyst Prince Mashele has apologised for lying that ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba had no role in funding the disgraced book.<\/p>\n
He has admitted Mashaba did infact pay R12m for the book, which was marketed as an unauthorised biography.<\/p>\n
Mashele had told eNCA last week that he funded the book out of pocket. It was later revealed Mashaba paid R12m for the \u201cunauthorised\u201d biography.<\/p>\n
In his apology issued on Wednesday, Mashele said: \u201cI would like to offer a sincere and unreserved apology for my part in the controversy which resulted in the withdrawal of my book, The Outsider: The Unauthorised Biography of Herman Mashaba.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I was bound by a non-disclosure obligation, I accept that I should not have stated that Herman Mashaba had no role to play in the funding of the book,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He justified the huge fee as a research cost that led to the production of the book, saying it was financed through a funding agreement with Mashaba.<\/p>\n
\u201cI offer my apology to Mr Mashaba who has since been associated with the controversy due to no fault of his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cl admit that the answer I gave to Professor JJ Tabane, which stated that Mr Mashaba had no role in the funding of the book, was incorrect. I apologise to Professor Tabane and the public in this regard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would also like to thank Jonathan Ball Publishers since, despite their disapproval of my non-disclosure about the funding, they still maintained that \u2018the manuscript that was submitted to us stood up to scrutiny\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cl appreciate the publisher\u2019s’ professionalism in my interaction with them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the ANC in Gauteng has slammed Mashele and Mashaba for allegedly attempting to concealing what they called one of the country\u2019s biggest literary frauds.<\/p>\n
It further said the party reacted strongly to what it described as a \u201cdeception of self-aggrandising\u201d literary fraud following the news of the Mashaba book, The Outsider, penned by Mashele at a cost of R12.5m allegedly from Mashaba.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ANC in Gauteng has learnt with great concern that the leader of ActionSA, Mashaba, has pulled off one of the greatest acts of deception in literary history. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe book purported to be an unauthorised biography when, in fact, Mashaba not only paid Mashele a mind-boggling R12.5m towards its research but was also in the process of providing information to Mashele,\u201d the ANC added.<\/p>\n
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