Riyaz Patel
South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Lesetja Kganyago is suing outspoken ANC Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa for R500 000 for defamation after two tweets which characterised Kganyago as a “lackey of racist people.”
An unrepentant Lungisa said that he has received the summons and that he will oppose it.
“The governor of the Reserve Bank is suing me for R500k because I correctly characterised him and his ilk as useful idiots of settler capital,” the councillor said.
Lungisa’s tweets came at the height of divisions within the ANC over the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank in June.
On June 5, Lungisa tweeted: “He, like many of his ilk, imagines
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