Mbaks tries to gag pundit

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has launched an urgent court application to force social commentator Anele Mda to take down social media posts which he said falsely link him to the murder of tender tycoon Wandile Bozwana.

- Faizel Patel

Mbalula filed the papers in the High Court in Pretoria last week. The matter is scheduled to be heard today.

In the papers, Mbalula insists that the "false, malicious and reckless" comments posted by Mda "seem to suggest that I was directly or indirectly involved in the murder of the deceased [Bozwana]".

He added that "the urgency of clearing my name in the public sphere should be understood in the context of the recently sanctioned commission of inquiry by the president into the alleged criminal involvement of members of parliament, the incumbent minister of police and several public figures alleged to have been colluding with criminal syndicates".