Pretoria - In yet another bid to clear his name of false rape accusations, a businessman, who derives his income from social media, turned to court to force a group which names and shames alleged perpetrators, to retract social media postings referring to him. The Cape Town-based applicant, who is not named, earlier this month obtained an urgent order issued by Acting Judge Anthony Millar.
The administrators of @HELPSURVIVORS were ordered to delete these tweets from all media platforms, apologise and acknowledge that the tweets were defamatory and hurtful towards the applicant. @HELPSURVIVORS explained that it used Twitter as a platform to offer victims of gender-based violence the opportunity to publicly air their grievances and to give them a chance to speak out.
But the applicant said allegations about him were false and he stood to lose contracts as a result, noting that some of his clients had already withdrawn their accounts from his business.
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