[1] In April 2020, while Mamorobela was a councillor, a video was published of her drinking champagne and dancing with friends at the height of South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown.
[3] The video received attention on social media and, following a criminal complaint by the opposition Democratic Alliance, Mamorobela and two others were arrested for contravening the national lockdown regulations.
[3][4] The criminal charge was provisionally withdrawn in August,[1] but in the interim Mamorobela was suspended by the ANC and asked to recuse herself from her municipal work in line with the party's step-aside rule.
[5] In September, local media reported that Mamorobela had been arrested again, allegedly for a late-night drunken car accident in her Ford Ranger.
[8] In February 2022, a casual vacancy opened in an ANC seat after Tshitereke Matibe's resignation, and Mamorobela was sworn in as a Delegate to the NCOP.