Senzo Mchunu defamation case continues
Mchunu opened the case following a number of Facebook posts in 2016 by Nkumbesi, in which he levelled several accusations against Mchunu related to his tenure as KZN Education MEC
THE defamation case involving former KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu will continue in the Empangeni Regional Court this month.
The case has been ongoing since February, when the accused Mphumezi Dumisani Nkumbesi from Lamontville in Durban, was dragged before the Empangeni Regional Court to explain his Facebook posts in which he allegedly defamed Mchunu.
Mchunu opened the case following a number of Facebook posts in 2016 by Nkumbesi, in which he levelled several accusations against Mchunu related to his tenure as KZN Education MEC.
Nkumbesi, charged with crimen injuria, was arrested on 16 February and appeared in court the following day.
He was granted bail of R1 000.
A number of postponements followed before a trial date was finally set last month for 18 October.
Nkumbesi’s Facebook rants have previously landed him in hot water.
In 2014 a Durban publication reported that at the height of political tensions in KZN that year, the ANC’s Visvin Reddy wrote to ANC Chairperson Sihle Zikalala requesting him to take action against Nkumbesi.
Nkumbesi reportedly told Reddy: ‘You killed the MF (minority Front) and you want to do the same with the ANC.
News flash, that ain’t going to happen.’
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