Mbuyiseni Ndlozi repeats Gordhan is a dog of white monopoly capital
Moments after the Equality Court dismissed Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s hate speech application against EFF leader Julius Malema, EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi took to Twitter to reiterate that Gordhan was “a dog of white monopoly capital”.
These were the same words used by Malema in November last year when he was outside the state capture commission of inquiry in Parktown, which resulted in Gordhan lodging a complaint against him.
Ndlozi, who tweeted that Gordhan was not above the law, was not the only one basking in the EFF’s victory. The EFF’s deputy president, Floyd Shivambu, also weighed in to reflect that the EFF had defeated the application of the “God of STRATCOM”.
The DOG OF WHITE MONOPOLY CAPITAL, Founder of the Rogue Unit, Grand Master of the CABAL, god of STRATCOM, the nepotist who’s destroying State Owned Companies Jamnandas Gordhan was defeated and should pay cost for his frivolous application.
— Floyd Shivambu (@FloydShivambu) October 31, 2019
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The Gauteng High Court has dismissed an application of Jamnandas Gordhan, who had frivolously asked the Court to declare political expression by CiC @Julius_S_Malema as hate speech. The court ordered that he must pay the costs too. We’re focused on the crocodiles, not lizards.
— Floyd Shivambu (@FloydShivambu) October 31, 2019
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Gordhan’s application against Malema was dismissed with costs as Judge Roland Sutherland found that while the utterances were indeed hateful and somewhat juvenile, they did not amount to hate speech. He said Gordhan’s legal team failed to prove that Malema’s comments violated the Equality Act.
Malema has indicated that courts could fall into the trap of silencing freedom of expression.
At the Nasrec Expo Centre to announce the party’s second National People’s Assembly, he told reporters how the EFF’s detractors were now using courts and the law to fight battles against the party.
He said the courts were “willingly or unwillingly” falling into the trap of silencing freedom of expression and the exercising of political rights because people who had money “can imprison you by imposing a heavy lawsuit on you”.
