In Unfollowed episode 8, the season finale, the sunglasses stay on as host Thembekile Mrototo questions former child star, singer and Uyajola 9/9 presenter Molemo Katleho ‘Jub Jub’ Maarohanye about how he keeps coming back – even after the incident in which he and a friend killed four schoolchildren in March 2010, four years in prison, and an ongoing rape trial.
“Everything was taken away in the blink of an eye.”
“Everything was taken away in the blink of an eye from having the accident,” he admits. Noting how his words distance Jub Jub from his actions, Thembekile asks, “Taken away by yourself?”
“Not really, I guess the choices,” says Jub Jub, who wishes he had “taken a stop in my life and actually figured out there’s no need to live a fast life.” The accident lingers as his “darkest day”. He explains, “A good part of me died as well … When you find yourself alone, you just remember … you try to sleep, you see visions. You try to move on with your life when you are reminded.”
“If somebody had raped my family member, I’m telling you now, I would not wait for the justice system.”
Jub Jub is currently out on bail, facing three counts of rape, two counts of attempted murder and one count of assault, brought by four different accusers, after high profile women including actress Amanda du-Pont, Refilwe Khumalo, and Masechaba Khumalo (then Ndlovu), went public online with accusations of violent sexual misconduct.
“We live in a society where rape is a pandemic, and it is sad how now guys are not scared of guns, not scared of knives, but we’re scared of just waking up being accused, you know?,” Jub Jub says sincerely. “Right now we’re just shielding from every woman.”
Thembekile digs down into Jub Jub’s views on who, exactly, the justice system is failing, and why he’s choosing to focus on a minority of falsely accused men.
And when pressed, Jub Jub claims, “If you know that somebody was raped, if somebody has raped my family member, I’m telling you now, I would not wait for the justice system. I know what I would do.”
