Judge climbs into Zuma, orders apology to Hanekom over spy libel

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'It was the NEC of the ANC who recalled him. Many other members of the party were of the view that he did not possess the characteristics befitting the office.'

The crisp issue Pillay had to determine was what a"reasonable person" would have assumed Zuma meant when he published his tweet.

She said Hanekom had sent a lawyer's letter to Zuma demanding that the tweet be withdrawn but he chose not to respond to it.In spite of his denials, it was clear that Zuma wanted readers to make the historical connection that an enemy agent referred to apartheid spy. "He mistakenly assumes that loyalty to the ANC is synonymous with loyalty to him. His assumption is both factually and constitutionally untenable.

She said for Zuma to dismiss Hanekom’s anti-apartheid activism, his loyalty to the ANC and his underground work as irrelevant to the application was not only offensive and inflammatory but also disingenuous.

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