Masuku, Phasha battle far from over

The legal battle and bitter spat between ANC Johannesburg regional chair Loyiso Masuku and political analyst and podcast host Phapano Phasha is heating up.

- Faizel Patel

Last month, Masuku won an urgent defamation case against Phasha.

Masuku, who defeated Dada Morero to become the first woman to lead the ANC Johannesburg region, sought an interdict against Phasha for making defamatory remarks about her in public.

In a podcast, Phasha alleged Masuku belongs to a so-called PPE cartel and suggested that she bought votes to defeat Morero. She was also labelled a “psychopath”.

Judge J Mahomed found Phasha’s statements to be false, defamatory, unlawful and malicious, and ordered the podcast producer to remove the episode from platforms such as YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.