Koko slapped down in defamation claim
Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko, who said he was suing a 72-year-old teacher for defamation because “she needed a big klap” has been klapped himself by the high court in Johannesburg, which has ordered that he pay the woman’s legal costs.
Koko was seeking R500,000 from Barbara Tanton, the principal of the Little Academy nursery school in Centurion...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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