Citizen ordered to pay Robert McBride
Ekurhuleni Metro Police head Robert McBride, who has been placed on leave pending his trial for driving under the influence of alcohol and defeating the ends of justice and fraud – was awarded R200 000 of the R3,6 million damages claim he lodged against the Citizen newspaper in the Johannesburg High Court yesterday.
A legal adviser in the case, who did not want to be named, said the editor, the company and columnist Andrew Kenny also have to pay interest at 15,5 percent – 14 days from the date of judgment.
Kenny’s column accounted for R100 000 of the order...Testifying in court during the case, Williams said the articles were due to McBride’s criminal record – that included the bombing of a bar in which 69 people were injured and three killed during the apartheid era.
He wrote that McBride was once detained for gun dealing in Mozambique and also had no experience or academic training as a traffic officer.
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2 comments:
Another criminal who (literally) got away with murder and is now part of our justice (unjust!?) system - what kind of message does that convey
Makes me sick!
Tks for bringing articles likes these to our attention.
It's part of why there is a growing sense of Afropessimism in South Africa. If you have a crisis in leadership, crime, education, electricity, milk and bread supply - it means even if we are growing economically we are still headed towards the nearest sewer. And now it seems clear we will no longer be growing. Someone wrote that if you throw a cigarette out the window and it burns up table mountain, you will spend 2 years in jail. But if you make a gemors of the whole economy - as Eskom has - you're allowed to say 'sorry'.
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