Jackie Maarohanye

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Jackie Maarohanye, also known as Mama Jackey, Mama Jackie, or Angel of Soweto and mother of kwaito star Jub-jub, is known for running the Ithuteng Trust School in Soweto, South Africa. The Ithuteng Trust School was set up in 1997 by Maarohanye with the help of President Nelson Mandela. The original goal of the institution was to specifically help disenfranchised youths, including rape victims, drug addicts, rapists, juvenile offenders, and other victims of abuse. Her story inspired the film Ithuteng.

In 2006, the TV program Carte Blanche claimed that her pupils who claimed to be victims of various abuses were lying and prompted by Maarohanye in order to receive more funding. ^[1] ^[2] Jackey Maarohanye faces charges of assault and kidnapping after allegedly being part of a group that held a reporter and driver from the Sowetan newspaper hostage for more than six hours at the school on 19 February 2007.