Drag queen ‘snitch’ runs up huge bill

A GUEST-house owner’s costly ordeal with a drag queen‚ who is a Western Cape MEC’s informant‚ has come to a bittersweet end.

Sylvano Hendricks‚ also known as Queenie-Madikizela Malema‚ stayed at Jacques de Bruyn’s Wolwedans guest house in Grootbrak Rivier for almost two months‚ racking up a bill of R87 000.

Hendricks allegedly told De Bruyn he was in the area on “official business” for Western Cape MEC for community safety Dan Plato and that Plato would foot the bill.

De Bruyn also claimed Hendricks took his wife’s 2011 Chevy Cruise. He reported the theft of the car to the police.

Hendricks was arrested by police in December after more than three months on the run from correctional services for contravening his parole conditions.

Plato told Times Media last year that he knew Hendricks was at the guest house but would not say whether he knew he was on the run.

He confirmed that Hendricks was an informant.

On December 11 De Bruyn got a phone call from a man saying he had the car.

They met at the police station and the man wrote an affidavit about how the car came into his possession. He then handed De Bruyn the keys to the vehicle‚ which had been badly damaged.

Correctional services spokesperson Carla Williams said Hendricks was incarcerated at one of their facilities but would not say if he would be transferred to George for the vehicle theft case.

But De Bruyn is that the car is back. grateful