adminAmon Mokoena and Thato Mataboge, who host a weekly midday show on Metro FM called The Secret Ingredient, flatly refused to interview Brown.
“We don’t want to be associated with Chris Brown. We are busy pushing a positive message about 16 Days Against Women and Child Abuse and here we are being forced to entertain this concert. We all know what he did,” Mataboge explained in an e-mail.
In a chain of e-mails dated from 5-12 December between the pair and programming manager Caren Olsen, sales manager Hazel Tlhabanyane and station manager Martin Vilakazi, the two state their opposition to Brown’s Carpe Diem tour concert currently in South Africa.
“It does not sit well with any of us. As a father to my daughter and as husbands to our wives who have never lifted even a finger to any female, it’s compromising what we stand for as a show and individuals,” continued Mataboge.
Chris Brown performed in Johannesburg on Saturday and in Durban on Monday on his Carpe Diem tour —and is set to perform two shows at Cape Town’s Grand Arena today and tomorrow.
In February 2009, the night before the Grammy Awards, Brown assaulted singer girlfriend Rihanna after she allegedly threw away his Lamborghini keys during an altercation in the car.
Brown pleaded guilty and was sentenced to community service. However, in the past few months, Rihanna and Brown have been spotted together on several occasions and are said to have revived their “friendship”.
The Metro FM jocks’ opposition to Brown’s concert is an echo of what has happened in some of the other countries he has visited during his tour.
In September, protesters in London defaced Brown’s latest album, Fortune, when they stormed music stores and pasted stickers saying: “Do not buy this album! This man beats women.”—Channel24.
derick.khumalo
Online Reporter