This is the latest in what appears to be the party's never-ending legal battles, coming during the same week it was found guilty of hate speech.
This is the latest in what appears to be the party’s never-ending legal battles, coming during the same week it was found guilty of hate speech.
Billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe dragged Black First Land First to the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday, with the case continuing this morning., where it was ruled that its slogan “land or death” constituted hate speech. The party was expected to issue a written apology and remove the slogan from all party branding, something it has refused to do.
Motsepe took issue with Mngxitama having alleged that his sister had ambitions to take over the diamond industry in Botswana and that she and Motsepe had been involved in an alleged coup plot in the country to that end.The lawyers added that Mngxitama’s comments were injurious to their client’s dignity, were offensive, derogatory, hurtful, and exposed their client to general disesteem and ill-will.
In reaction to Motsepe’s demand for Mngxitama to apologise, he instead doubled down, releasing a statement in which he made further written accusations against Radebe and Motsepe, once again welcoming the decision of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party government to impose travel restrictions on Bridgette Radebe due to the accusations of her being “involved in a regime change campaign to remove President Masisi from power and replace him with Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, who is backed by Masisi’s...
He repeated the allegation that Radebe was “being used” by supposed “imperialist interests to create hostility towards President Mokgweetsi Masisi in return for securing her own mining interests”.Case: Patrice Thlopane Motsepe // Black First Land First & Andile Mngxitama, case number 2019/15584
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