Comments the EFF made about Trevor Manuel relating to the appointment process of a new Sars commissioner are defamatory and false, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday.
In March 2019, the EFF issued a statement claiming that Manuel had chaired a “patently nepotistic and corrupt” committee, which recommended Edward Kieswetter’s appointment as SA’s tax boss. Kieswetter was a relative of Manuel, as well as “a close business associate and companion” — which was false. The high court held that the comments were defamatory and false, and declared that the EFF’s publication of the statement was unlawful.
The high court had ordered that the EFF, Malema and Ndlozi jointly and severally pay damages of R500,000 to Manuel, and had 24 hours to publish a notice on all their media platforms on which the statement had been published, in which they unconditionally retract and apologise for the allegations made about the applicant in the statement.
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