Radio personality Tbo Touch has not taken kindly to allegations that he owes a service provider, Peace Maphula money for the services provided for the inaugural Replenishment Concert that took place in October. The successful concert that took place on 22 October  at SuperSport Park Cricket Stadium featured gospel heavyweights including  Benjamin Dube, Dumi Mkokstad, Dr Tumi, Andile Ka Majola, Ntokozo Mbambo, Hlengiwe Mhlaba, Thinah Zungu, Sbu Noah, Takie Ndou among others. Touch, through his  lawyers Ian Levitt Attorneys, has  demanded that  Maphula retracts the statements made against him in a form of a public statement. Maphula has further been instructed to  apologise to Touch for the allegations made by close of business tomorrow. If he fails to do so, Touch has threatened to take further legal action against Maphula.

HE WAS PAID 

The letter further stated that Maphula was paid for his work. "You were mandated by a third party known as Tshiamo Letshwene in order to conduct social media coverage for our client for the concert. You conducted work in August 2022 for our client, and such work was paid for in the amount of R14 000. Thereafter, and from September 2022 another service provider, known as Ritevac Agency was brought on board in order to conduct the further social media coverage, as our client was dissatisfied with the work conducted by Tshiamo Letshwene and in turn, yourselves. No further work was attended to by you, and, upon our client requesting proof of the work attended to by you, screenshots were sent to it evidencing work in fact conducted by Ritevac Agency. Accordingly, there is absolutely no basis for you to claim that monies are still owed to you by our clients, "read the letter.

RETRACT THE DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS

The letter further claimed that  Touch attempted to call Maphula to ascertain from him what he was exactly claiming he was still owed and for what but Maphula did not  take Touch's calls. "We are instructed that, as such, your conduct is mala fides as you have accordingly proceeded to make these defamatory statements deliberately to advance your social media presence and defame the good name of our clients by tagging its sponsors in the tweets made by you," the letter further read. Maphula was also instructed to retract the statements made against Touch in a form of a public statement in which he apologises to him  for the allegations made; and retract the statements made against  him  on account of them being untrue and defamatory. The letter further demanded that  the public statement  be shared by Maphula on all your social media accounts, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

STILL NOT PAID?

A miffed Peace claimed to have  only been paid 50 percent of the money and that he has been waiting for the balance for more than eight weeks. That is why he took to social media to lambast Molefe for not paying him.
"I had not been paid for  too I need to understand how do you @iamtbotouch as a black brother expect my company to grow and have the potential of being as big as yours if I have to beg you and your staff to pay me? Its been eight weeks since  I was approached by one of your people who was your then manager. That being Tshiamo on the 2nd of August 2022. We communicated with him and I agreed to bring in marketing services. I submitted an invoice that was paid half (50%) on the 15th of August to Tshiamo and Robyn....With all the sponsors you had. eight weeks later I'm still not paid?"he wrote. Molefe said he is chance taker every supplier was paid.
"I don't know who this guy is, ' Touch said earlier,.

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