Following the announcement by the Public Protector to release a report stemming from her investigation into a donation by Bosasa to the 2017 presidential campaign of President Cyril Ramaphosa (alisa “C17”), the president approached the courts for an interdict prohibiting the public release of the report. Certain prominent business persons were allegedly amongst the donors
It appears the social web has become a breeding ground for defamation claims. There is the sense that the Internet is a free-for-all environment where anyone can do anything with impunity. Many seem to be ignorant of the dangers when posting in the public space, and of the need for responsibility and exercising restraint.
The words of then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki addressing the United Nations University on 9 April 1998, were a call on Africans to realise their importance and become equipped for development shaped for equal economic activity and good living.
