Determined to clear his name, former water polo coach David Mackenzie has launched further civil action against a major news outlet, its editor, a podcaster and police minister Bheki Cele.
Former Gqeberha water polo coach David Mackenzie, publicly accused of molesting a teenage pupil, now wants the father of the boy who took his own life to cough up R30m, accusing him of reputational damage.
The lawsuit against St Andrew's College and the minister of education by the family of a young pupil who died by suicide cleared another possible legal stumbling block in its preparation for a civil trial.
'My Only Story', an award-winning South African podcast, has inspired the launch of Operation Nemo, a high-level police investigation into a network of sexual predators preying on top athletes in some of South Africa's most elite schools.