Zuma heads to court (again) to fight Hanekom defamation ruling via TheCitizen_News
Former president Jacob Zuma has approached the Constitutional Court seeking leave to appeal a High Court ruling that he defamed ANC veteran Derek Hanekom.
In 2019, Zuma tweeted Hanekom was a well-known agent of the enemy. His tweet followed revelations Hanekom had met with the EFF to discuss a motion of no confidence in Zuma when he was the sitting president.However in September 2019, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court ordered Zuma to apologise for the tweet and interdicted him from publishing any statement in the future that said or implied Hanekom was an enemy agent or apartheid spy.
Zuma then applied for leave to appeal the judgment, which was dismissed by Judge Dhaya Pillay in November 2019, on the basis there was no reasonable prospects of success before another court. “The High Court disregarded the defence of truth, reasonable comment and the application of Section 16 of the Constitution that the statements made by Mr [Julius] Malema about Mr Hanekom conniving with the EFF to remove Mr Zuma as a sitting president are true and correct and that Mr Hanekom participated in the plan to remove him is true and correct,” Mabuza said.
Mabuza said the High Court judge did not pay due regard to Section 16 of the Constitution which protected the former president’s right to freedom of expression. “This is simply far-fetched. There is no reason why conflicts or battle lines of more than a quarter of a century ago should be transposed into political debate in post-apartheid South Africa.”
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