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Fingergate. Seriously. That Is What It Is Being Called.

Submitted by FearTheReaper

Edited by erin_broadley

Tags: Big Brother, Africa, Fingergate



Welcome to the world of creepy and awful: It’s Big Brother in South Africa. Things went horribly wrong during the filming of South Africa’s second season of Big Brother. A woman got incredibly drunk, passed out, at which point her housemate sexually abused her. And to top it off, producers apparently thought it was totally okay to air.

Ofunneka Molokwu is a 29-year-old medical assistant who decided to spend the day drinking. She black out after an extended period of vomiting. That’s when 24-year-old housemate Richard Bezuidenhout decided to take advantage of the woman. As another housemate begged him to stop, Bezuidenhout “penetrated her vagina with his fingers” while Molokwu lay unconscious. He then sat down in a chair across the room and sniffed his fingers for a while. Seriously. This actually happened on television, while people watched at home.


Viewers flooded newspapers and Internet message boards with emails expressing outrage. Many of the emails contained photo clips from the program, which appeared to show housemate Richard Bezuidenhout, a 24-year-old film student from Tanzania, assaulting Ofunneka Molokwu, a 29-year-old medical assistant from Nigeria.


The pay-TV channel insists that no such attack took place, even though people watched it occur. The channel took the high road.


"There is no indication that [Molokwu] was unconscious at the time," M-Net executive Joseph Hundah said.


Riiiight. I guess that is why producers called paramedics after the attack and cut the live feed, because all was well. Oh, and go fuck yourself.

In South Africa a woman is assaulted every 40 seconds. Bezuidenhout’s actions constitute rape under South African law. Bezuidenhout decided to top the assault by being an even bigger asshole when he opened his Neanderthal mouth to explain his actions to his other housemates.


Well, this is Africa.


Well, then maybe we can get you killed by a lion.

Now, in an even more hideous turn of events, the controversy is being called "Fingergate." Seriously.


The fallout over what is now being dubbed 'Fingergate' continues.


Barf.

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pariah002

pariah002

Yugoslavia
July 2003

NOV 04, 2007 12:13 PM

Morgan said:
I fucking hate people.




My sentiments exactly.

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

NOV 04, 2007 01:24 PM

How repulsive.

SkottieDanger

SkottieDanger

Georgia
OLD SKOOL

NOV 04, 2007 01:31 PM

welcome to reality.

imclever

imclever

Kent, WA
February 2007

NOV 04, 2007 01:37 PM

pariah002 said:

Morgan said:
I fucking hate people.




My sentiments exactly.



But do you both love parties?

mamet

mamet

Charleston, SC
March 2005

NOV 04, 2007 01:50 PM

jimindc said:
There is a version of Big Brother in almost all countries. Please note this happened on the SOUTH AFRICAN version of Big Brother, which is an independent show produced in SOUTH AFRICA and really has not much to do with any other version, in any other country (except for the name.)



Do you work for Big Brother or something?

This situation is unconscionable.

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

NOV 04, 2007 01:52 PM

mamet said:

jimindc said:
There is a version of Big Brother in almost all countries. Please note this happened on the SOUTH AFRICAN version of Big Brother, which is an independent show produced in SOUTH AFRICA and really has not much to do with any other version, in any other country (except for the name.)



Do you work for Big Brother or something?



Probably Endemol.

Is that you Sean? Jeremy?

TheFox

TheFox

Durham, NC
February 2006

NOV 04, 2007 02:03 PM

How absolutely revolting. I just... why do people do these things?

That poor girl.

imclever

imclever

Kent, WA
February 2007

NOV 04, 2007 02:16 PM

According to a fan weblog the sex was consensual.

I am still looking for more info, but there are far too many "Fingergate" incidents. The finger in the chili hoax, Bush, Justice Scalia of the US Supreme Court and a few others have also been labeled "Fingergate" in the past.

Clutters the Google search, you know.

Innocent until proven guilty and all that....not that anyone seems to give a shit about anything other than the court of public opinion.

soulcompromise

soulcompromise

I'm lost
November 2006

NOV 04, 2007 02:28 PM

That's pretty kinky, but probably not the best way to teach her how not to skip work.

imclever

imclever

Kent, WA
February 2007

NOV 04, 2007 03:15 PM

Apparently, the guy in the incident is married and sleeping with the other woman that was drunk offa her ass and in the bed (and was also getting fingered at the same time).

This guy sounds like a real fucking asshole. Drunk OR sober.

shapeshifter23

shapeshifter23

San Francisco, CA
September 2005

NOV 04, 2007 03:17 PM

Can so -called Reality TV be outlawed and the people that bring us this tripe be shot now?



Can the suffix "-gate" be outlawed, as it pertains to scandals?



Both motions are seconded.

IronOrchid

ironorchid

Australia
February 2007

NOV 04, 2007 03:25 PM

So much anger.

Seriously, Big Brother should hand over all footage to the police and help the poor woman press charges against him.

Greybeard

Greybeard

Los Angeles, CA
December 2006

NOV 04, 2007 03:49 PM

we3_pirate said:
Can the suffix "-gate" be outlawed, as it pertains to scandals? I mean, "Fingergate"? Seriously? What idiot thought that was clever?



But "-gate" is so appealing. Visualize a gate slowly swinging open, and the truth emerging.

KingHELL

kinghell

Portland, OR
July 2003

NOV 04, 2007 03:55 PM

I'm going to start using "fingergate" as slang for "vagina" from now on. It doesn't sound any more retarded than "va-jay-jay."

soulcompromise

soulcompromise

I'm lost
November 2006

NOV 04, 2007 05:00 PM

I think Africa was considering an anti-rape device that a woman could put up her poonani that would bite onto a guy if he tried to take advantage. When I opened this topic I thought it was going to be about that. But like I always say... they should give the death penalty in certain rape cases.

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