{"id":93555,"date":"2025-11-27T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/fikile-mbalula-wins-gag-order-against-brown-mogotsi"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:00:50","slug":"fikile-mbalula-wins-gag-order-against-brown-mogotsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/fikile-mbalula-wins-gag-order-against-brown-mogotsi","title":{"rendered":"Fikile Mbalula wins gag order against Brown Mogotsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has secured a legal victory after the high court in Pretoria granted a far-reaching gag order against Brown Mogotsi.<\/p>\n<p>The Rustenburg businessman was ordered to retract and remove a series of serious allegations the court ruled were \u201cfalse, defamatory and unlawful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The order, signed on Tuesday by judge Jacobus Strijdom, comes after Mbalula opened a case in October after Mogotsi\u2019s remarks during a Newzroom Afrika interview. Mogotsi, who did not oppose the application, is now barred from repeating the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview and online posts, Mogotsi discussed the 2015 assassination of North West billionaire businessman Wandile Bozwana. Allegations he made, the court said, had \u201cno factual basis whatsoever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Strijdom ruled that Mogotsi had to:<\/p>\n<p>issue a full retraction within 48 hours;<\/p>\n<p>delete all related posts on social media; and<\/p>\n<p>remove the allegations from any platform where they appear.<\/p>\n<p>He is also interdicted from participating in interviews, discussions or future commentary that repeat the unfounded claims.<\/p>\n<p>The judge emphasised that Mogotsi is \u201cgagged from ever again speaking about this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was found to be liable to pay damages to Mbalula, with the amount to be determined through oral evidence later. Mogotsi must also pay Mbalula\u2019s legal costs on a punitive attorney-and-client scale.<\/p>\n<p>Bozwana\u2019s killers were last year sentenced to 30 years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has secured a legal victory after the high court in Pretoria granted a far-reaching gag order against Brown Mogotsi. The Rustenburg businessman was ordered to retract and remove a series of serious allegations the court ruled were \u201cfalse, defamatory and unlawful\u201d. 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