Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has shown off his interracial family in light of both Heritage Month and the party’s third anniversary celebrations.
Mmusi is married to Natalie Maimane, and the couple have three children together.
The former Democratic Alliance leader started his own political party in 2022.
MMUSI MAIMANE SHARES A LOOK AT FAMILY
In a social media post, Mmusi Maimane and his family commemorated BOSA’s third birthday.
The clip featured Mmusi, his wife Natalie, and their three children: daughters Kgalaletso and Kutlwano-Grace and son Kgosi Daniel.
The family also used the opportunity to speak about their unique heritage, and the one they hoped they could pass down to their children.
After quitting the Democratic Alliance in 2019, Mmusi Maimane founded the civic organisation One South Africa Movement the following year. In 2022, he established his own political party, Build One South Africa (BOSA).
‘FOUND EACH OTHER POST-APARTHEID’
Mmusi Maimane previously revealed how he met his wife of 20 years at a Muldersdrift church.
At the time, the couple were teenagers and started dating after developing a firm friendship. Eight months later, Mmusi and Natalie were married.
But despite coming from totally different backgrounds – Mmusi from Dobsonville, Soweto, and Natalie from Roodepoort – their strong Christian faith and mutual respect united them.
Natalie told Weekend Argus of their interracial romance: “Our family is proof of the fact that we have progressed as a country. We are a couple that has found one another post-apartheid.
“We have beautiful children who are intelligent and have opportunities they may have never had in the past. For me, those are stories of the new South Africa”.
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Mmusi also mentioned how their relationship had often been ill-perceived by the public.
In an open letter, he shared: “You see, our union is an offence to black and white nationalists for different reasons. And each side will tell her a different narrative. On the left, she’s told she is the enemy, yet on the right, she’s told she is being targeted and persecuted for simply having a white skin.
“Both are, of course, untrue”.