Broadcast excerpt·SUN, 04 OCT 2026 · 17:01:37–17:03:37 SAST
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And debate over social media restrictions during school hours. Good afternoon, Ameva Chipa. Ete Grini May and KZ N. Seral Kwaba has argued that the DA's Water Tanker Mafia Billboard crossed the line from political criticism into defamation. The billboard featured Kwaba, city manager Musambele, and Water and Sanitation Executive Director Edni Knswelli, alongside the message calling for an end to the so-called water tanker mafia.
Kraba says the city accepts a robust political debate but will not allow officials to be labeled criminals while carrying out their duties. The billboard was removed from the N2 after the officials threatened legal action, although the DA says it did not agree with its removal. Kraba is speaking at a post-council media briefing at Durban City Hall, where he outlined the city's response to the water crisis and other service delivery challenges.
Up they are quoted in one of the newspapers, in the newspaper, as saying they did it on their own volition because they didn't want to be caught up in the court office. So it means that they are actually responding to our legal action. But again, later, we stay with our lawyers and are pursuing it. Meanwhile, the DA has held a demonstration led by its mayoral candidate, Hanifa Sin, and the Kazaran leaders Tembi Songgema outside the
Durban City Home. Hussein says the DA refused to remove the billboard and questions how it was taken down, despite the party's position. Well, we have evidence that shows that the landowners were actually intimidated to remove the billboard. That's the truth. And that evidence will make it available at the right time. So any suggestion that somebody wasn't behind intimidation on this billboard is clearly untrue because we have the evidence for that. And if the mayor was serious about fighting this matter,
As a matter of principle, he would have taken us to court. We are still waiting for your summons, and I hope that he will deliver that summons. In other news, the debate over whether learners should be restricted from accessing social media during school hours has taken centre stage at the Constitutional Court in Bramfentain. Four schools from across the country are competing in the 15th annual South African National Schools Moot Court program, arguing whether such restrictions are constitutional. The debate comes.
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