By Staff Reporter
Construction Education and Training Authority (CETA) CEO Malusi Shezi has taken the Sunday Times and its journalist Sabelo Skiti to court. This is over a series of articles published from early July and this month which Shezi argues are defamatory.
In a matter at the Johannesburg High Court, Shezi is demanding a retraction, an apology and an interdict from publishing further articles on Shezi and CETA.
“The action of the applicant is premised on two articles and one headline,” Shezi said in court papers presented by Shezi’s attorney, Kgomotso Kabinde.
Shezi objects to the fact that the articles still appear on the Sunday Times website.
The articles centre on a claim that the Auditor-General found that the purchase of the CETA head office building was irregular, and that it made payments for a biometric system that did not exist nor has not been operational to benefit the
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