Zuma loses Hanekom ‘spy’ defamation case and has to pay damages

Judge Dhaya Pillay found the former president’s tweet about the former minister to be ‘untrue, defamatory and unlawful’President Jacob Zuma has been ordered to remove a tweet about former minister Derek Hanekom within 24 hours, apologise and pay him damages.Picture: ESA ALEXANDERormer cabinet minister and ANC member Derek HanekomThis is according to Durban high court judge Dhaya Pillay, who on Friday ordered Zuma to remove it and publish an apology on Twitter within 24 hours.

Hanekom, the former tourism minister — in Zuma's administration — was suing Zuma for R500,000 in damages after the former president tweeted in July that Hanekom was a “known enemy agent”.

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