Johnathan Paoli
Former Public Protector and EFF MP Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has instructed Goodrich Gardee Attorneys to act against the Daily Maverick following the publication of an article that called her a “kant.”
The law firm wrote a letter of demand to the publication on Tuesday, calling for the complete retraction of the article, an apology as agreed upon in conjunction with Mkhwebane’s legal team; and a payment of R5 million to an organisation which dealt with gender-based violence.
The letter said referring to the EFF MP as a “Kant” was a disingenuous innuendo referring to her in a sexist term that has frequently been used to derogate, humiliate, insult and impair the dignity and integrity of a person.
“Your conduct is unprecedentedly insensitive in the midst of appalling gender-based violence besieging the country, and for that matter, your journalist to refer to her as a private part of a woman,
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