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Moving Unit Video Television (T/A Muvi Tv Limited) V. Francis Mwiinga Maingaila Scz Selected Judgment No. 18 Of 2019, Chanda Chungu
Moving Unit Video Television (T/A Muvi Tv Limited) V. Francis Mwiinga Maingaila Scz Selected Judgment No. 18 Of 2019, Chanda Chungu
SAIPAR Case Review
This case dealt with an employee of Muvi TV Limited who was accused of defiling an under-age girl whom he had had offered accommodation to. He was videoed being arrested by a police officer and the news read as follows “Journalist defiled a 13-year old girl”. This news story was repeated on several subsequent news broadcasts by Muvi TV.
This story was published before any conviction was made in criminal proceedings. A medical report revealed that the girl had not been defiled and this was available before the story was released. However, despite the medical report being available, before the …
Mineral Sands Resources (Pty) Ltd And Another V Redell And Others And Two Related Cases 2021 Sa 268 (Wcc), Dunia P. Zongwe
Mineral Sands Resources (Pty) Ltd And Another V Redell And Others And Two Related Cases 2021 Sa 268 (Wcc), Dunia P. Zongwe
SAIPAR Case Review
This case teaches activists how to respond when they get SLAPPed. It introduced a defense mechanism to prevent lawsuits launched by big corporations to silence criticisms. North American lawyers commonly refer to these lawsuits as ‘strategic litigation (or lawsuits) against public participation (SLAPP). Two scholars from the United States of America (US) coined this acronym.2 And, in 2021, for the first time in South Africa, a court recognized the SLAPP phenomenon and accepted a defense against this kind of lawsuits.
When big corporations SLAPP activists and journalists, and their lawyers, judges should not slap back those corporations by accepting anti-SLAPP …