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AfriForum Threatens Journalist With Legal Action for Tweet, SA Wide-Eyed
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AfriForum Threatens Journalist With Legal Action for Tweet, SA Wide-Eyed

by  Tebogo Mokwena
2 min read
  • A journalist has been served with legal papers to retract statements he made about AfriForum recently
  • He claimed that AfriForum represented Frederick Botha, who was arrested after a drug lab was found on his farm
  • AfriForum threatened legal action if he did not retract his statements, and South Africans stood with him, roasting AfriForum

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With nine years’ experience, Tebogo Mokwena, a current affairs writer for Briefly News, provided insights into the criminal justice system and high-profile cases in South Africa at Daily Sun.

AfriForum asked a journalist to retract posts he made or face legal action
A letter AfriForum sent a journalist made South Africans laugh. Images: ilkercelik and Nick David
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JOHANNESBURG — A popular X journalist has been slapped with papers from lawyers representing AfriForum.

Afriforum demands journalist retract tweet

@MightiJamie posted the letter he received from Hunter Spies Attorneys, who represents the lobby group AfriForum. In the letter, AfriForum says @MightiJamie claimed that AfriForum represented Frederick Botha. Botha was recently arrested after a drug lab was found on his farm in Groblersdal, Limpopo.

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Afriforum demanded that he retract his statement, delete the tweet and tweet that AfriForum did not represent Botha and the other people he mentioned. The lawyers gave him until 9 September 2024 to retract his statements, follow the instructions, or face legal action.

View the letter here:

South Africans support him

Netizens stood with him, and some slammed AfriForum.

thepoliticalmalik said:

"This country is really a scam. So journalists can't report news. They are coming for you. You have touched the untouchable."

Owami said:

"It's crazy how they will do this to a journalist. Let them publish a list of their membership."

Lord Destro said:

"Start a GoFundMe. We'll support you through all this. It's time we unite as a black nation. Ever since Cyril became president, these people are doing as they like."

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Khudzumdumo said:

"So they were quiet about the farm killing of two women who were fed to the pigs."

Hope Nave said:

"You got served because you hit a nerve."

Afriforum opens case against Malema, Shivambu

In a related article, Briefly News reported that AfriForum opened a case against Economic Freedom Fighters president Julius Malema and former deputy president Floyd Shivambu.

This was after they were implicated in the VBS Mutual Bank looting. AfriForum demanded that their alleged involvement.

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Source: Briefly News

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Tebogo Mokwena (Current Affairs editor) Tebogo Mokwena is the Deputy Head of the Current Affairs desk and a current affairs writer at Briefly News. With a Diploma in Journalism from ALISON, he has a strong background in digital journalism, having completed training with the Google News Initiative. He began his career as a journalist at Daily Sun, where he worked for four years before becoming a sub-editor and journalist at Capricorn Post. He then joined Vutivi Business News in 2020 before moving to Briefly News in 2023.

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