Stop calling me a rapist, Kodwa tells Tlale

ANC big shot runs to court to interdict media influencer

- By Ngwako Malatji

Former minister of sports, arts and culture Zizi Kodwa has applied for an urgent court interdict to gag social media influencer Lerato Tlale from calling him a rapist.

Kodwa filed the interdict application in the Johannesburg High Court last week after failing to bar Tlale from branding him plunderer, saying the allegations are spurious and damaging to his reputation.

In the application that Sunday World has seen, Kodwa, said Tlale has been using her social media to post and publish defamatory statements about him.

Kodwa, a member of the ANC national executive committee, said the defamatory content continues to injure and tarnish his reputation and his good name, both in the eyes of the public and his career as a senior politician.