By: Natasha Archary
Celebrity gossip blogger, Musa Khawula has reportedly been ordered to cough up R500K in a defamation case.
According to Zimoja, photographer Dumani Khuzwayo won his case against Khawula for derogatory comments made on social media last year.
Khawula was found guilty of tweeting that Khuzwayo used to get passed around a nightclub to wealthy men who used him to have unprotected sex.
The tweet was posted on 28 January last year, and Musa Khawula basically insinuated that Khuzwayo was HIV positive.
“He is going to get aids very quickly because nobody wants to use rubber ever that’s given. He already has if he’s been working or him. No one is going to care if he’s sick or not as well because everyone is.”
Musa Khawula tweeted about Dumani Khuzwayo
Khuzwayo approached the court over the defamatory, hurtful and humiliating tweet which undermined his reputation.
The publication reports that the court ruled in favour of Khuzwayo, ordering Khawula to cough up R500K for defamation.
In addition to paying R48 750 a year, Musa Khawula has to publicly apologise to Khuzwayo and retract the statement he made about him.
“It is ordered that the respondent pay the sum of R500 000 to the applicant, interest on the aforesaid sum of R500 000 at the rate of 9.75% per annum a tempore mora until the date of payment in full.
The respondent issue public apology and unconditional retraction in writing and published on the respondent’s various social media platforms in which the respondent published the said utterances.”
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