Solidarity takes Minister Ntshavheni to court over alleged defamation

Trade union Solidarity is taking Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, to court over alleged defamation. This, after she claimed that Solidarity and its sister organisation, AfriForum, led misinformation campaigns against South Africa.

This follows the two movements’ visit to the United States after President Donald Trump issued an executive order on South Africa.

Solidarity says it has launched a defamation case against Ntshavheni, with President Cyril Ramaphosa being the second respondent.

Solidarity Deputy CEO, Anton van der Bijl says, “The specific statement was made by the Minister in the Presidency on the 27th of March when she stated that Solidarity and AfriForum is busy with a continued campaign of disinformation and misinformation and it’s in connection with the alleged use of the wording of ‘white genocide’ by Solaridy and AfriForum, we dispute that we have used that words. So we say the narrative that we are busy with a disinformation campaign is absolutely defamatory, it cannot stand and we must take that to court.”