Cindy Mahlangu gets apology for tweet claiming she is a ‘side chick’

The social media spat between actress Cindy Mahlangu and content creator Vicky Vee Jones escalated quite quickly.

Jones tweeted on 5 March claiming that Cindy was “flew out” by her soon to be ex-boyfriend, the tweet was reposted by gossip site Popcorn Room SA.

3 months into 2021 and Cindy just handed Vicky one of the biggest L’s of the year. pic.twitter.com/SYOhEDeJ4R

— Jonas (@JonasSivuyile) March 10, 2021

Jones seems to claims that her then partner “soon to be an ex” bought a plane ticket for Cindy to go see him. The actress, who has appeared on The Queen and is a cast member on Netflix’s Blood & Water, did not take kindly to this allegation.

She sent Jones a letter of demand for a retraction and apology.  In the legal document, Cindy was represented by attorney Ndumiso Zwane who said the allegations in the tweet were not true.

“Our client has no knowledge of the individual you are mentioning as your soon to be ex-boyfriend/partner. The allegations contained in your tweet are defamatory, intentional, wrongful and unjustifiable,” the letter said.

Clindy is linked to football player Bongani Zungu and the couple made their relationship official in August 2020.

Zungu has had a tough time abroad. He was nearly cut from Rangers club in Scotland after breaking Covid-19 protocols and attending a party with some of his teammates.

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Beauty influencer Jones has more than 300,000 Instagram followers and nearly 88,000 YouTube subscribers.

After the letter was sent, Jones said: “I would like to unreservedly and unequivocally apologise to Cindy Thando for my tweet published on the 5th of March 2021, I was aggrieved by the turn of events then went to publish without applying myself. Thus, I retract my tweet.”

Mahlangu accepted the apology.

This is the apology I accept. https://t.co/Igpr13IwY0 pic.twitter.com/xpAYArUj19

— Cindy Mahlangu (@cindythando4) March 10, 2021

Twitter users said they would not have been as quick to apologise even with threats of a lawsuit and many thought this was being petty.

Had Vicky not apologised, what would Cindy and her lawyer’s have done? Go to court and say ‘Judge, she said I flew out ne ex yakhe’? ????????????

— Phume (@phume22) March 10, 2021

Also did Vicky mention Cindy surname ? Or she ended it at Cindy lol ??

How she caught that heat ????? No man the girl was scared shame ..I would of responded “ I was talking about Cinderella “

— Champagne Pipi (@Kokoleo_zn) March 10, 2021

KefiBoo tried suing a whole entire media publication for defamation of character and she lost.
Vicky’s tweet didn’t even make it to top trends for that day and you want to tell me Cindy had a solid case?

Please, I’m registering one module each semester!!

— Mogau????????♥️ (@M_sankie) March 10, 2021

????I just know that this is the pettiest case Cindy’s lawyer has ever had to take on. And Vicky fell for it ???? https://t.co/n5eX8TsNd1

— zamahlubi (@__zamahlubi) March 10, 2021

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