Former deputy minister of finance Sfiso Buthelezi is suing former ANC MP Mabel 'Vytjie' Mentor for allegedly trying to break up his marriage.
The post, which offended Buthelezi, reads as follows:"I am reliably informed that girl-friend of Sfiso Buthelezi, SA's Deputy Minister of Finance, is a Doctor who left husband in Durban and is now lives at Sfiso's property in Bishop's Court, Cape Town . She apparentlt knew more than a year ago that Sfiso was heading to Treasury. She is boasting of buying a property overseas , aided by PIC, and this is being/is to be leased to DIRCO. Any Investigative Journalism out there??? .
"My moral turpitude under attack, and being accused of cheating on my wife and dishonesty, I will be unable to recover my human dignity in the eyes of my wife, prospective employers and business associates until a court of law has corrected the impression that the defendant/"The natural and ordinary meaning of the statement to the reasonable reader of ordinary intelligence is that though I [am] married, I am having an extra marital relationship with a married woman and that I was...
"In the premises I pray for an order in the following terms; payment of the sum of R1m, interest thereon at the rate of 10,5% per annum and cost of suit," read the papers.
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