{"id":36909,"date":"2022-09-12T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-urges-court-to-view-kenny-kunenes-cockroach-insult-in-context-of-rwandan-genocide"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:53:21","slug":"malema-urges-court-to-view-kenny-kunenes-cockroach-insult-in-context-of-rwandan-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/malema-urges-court-to-view-kenny-kunenes-cockroach-insult-in-context-of-rwandan-genocide","title":{"rendered":"Malema urges court to view Kenny Kunene’s ‘cockroach’ insult in context of Rwandan genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>EFF leader Julius Malema wants Kenny Kunene’s comments labelling him a “cockroach” to be considered in the context of the Rwandan genocide.<\/p>\n

Malema has dragged Kunene, the Patriotic Alliance’s (PA) deputy president, to the Equality Court after the high-profile businessman failed to apologise for calling him a “cockroach” during a television interview last year.<\/p>\n

eNCA interviewed Kunene at the time of the local government elections last year to discuss coalitions after the PA emerged as kingmakers in several municipalities, News24 previously reported.<\/p>\n

He also said he would “deal” with Malema and threatened to expose him.<\/p>\n

Malema is now demanding that Kunene issue an unconditional public apology and retract the statement.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Malema’s lawyer, advocate Kameel Premhid, told the court the term cockroach “enjoys the particular sting that it does because of its links to the Rwandan genocide”.<\/p>\n

“The word cockroach means something, and that something is offensive.”<\/p>\n

Premhid said the court should “play a role in making a legal determination as to what the reasonable listener who heard the words being uttered will attach what meaning to it”.<\/p>\n

He added the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land, already said words were not neutral.<\/p>\n

Premhid said when his client called another person a cockroach, he followed that up with a withdrawal and an apology.<\/p>\n

“And why was that? Your lordship must ask himself, why was that? It’s not because the word cockroach suddenly took a special meaning in South Africa.<\/p>\n

“It’s not because we had a \u2026 genocidal incident in South Africa as a result of the word cockroach being used.<\/p>\n

“It was a recognition that the word cockroach in and of itself is so offensive because of how it is utilised in fraught political situations.”<\/p>\n

Kunene had previously said a “cockroach has been an irritant my entire childhood. Everyone who irritates him, I refer to him as an irritant”.<\/p>\n

“He calls us bandits, criminals, and that is defamatory. I don’t run to courts because I am not a cry baby and a sissy boy. This is politics.”<\/p>\n

On Monday, courtroom 8D in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg – where the Equality Court is sitting – was packed to capacity with PA supporters clad in party regalia.<\/p>\n

Kunene was also in attendance.<\/p>\n

Only two members of the EFF attended proceedings, and then only for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

The case continues.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Africa<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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