EFF considering Concourt appeal over Manuel defamation case
By Samkelo Mtshali
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Cape Town â The EFF says it is currently consulting with its senior legal counsel on the prospects of an appeal to the Constitutional Court after the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled this week that the partyâs 2019 remarks about former finance minister Trevor Manuel were defamatory and false.
This follows the SCA s judgment this week that the EFF s allegations of nepotism and corruption regarding Manuelâs role in the appointment of Edward Kiesswetter as South African Revenue Services Commissioner in May 2019 were indeed defamatory and false.
At the time, the EFF had referred to Kiesswetter as a âdodgy characterâ and that he had ties to Manuel because they were not only related but were also business associates.
Trevor Manuel lawsuit: EFF has R500k damages reduced
By Samkelo Mtshali
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Johannesburg - The Economic Freedom Fighters successfully appealed the North Gauteng High Court’s order to pay R500 000 in damages to Trevor Manuel after two judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) ruled that the award of damages had been unjustifiably high.
The ruling was handed down on Thursday by SCA judges Mahomed Navsa and Malcolm Willis, who said that the order by the high court for the EFF to pay half a million rand to the former finance minister had appeared extraordinarily high and not in line with the recent general trend.