A simmering legal dispute between veteran labour activist Johnson Motshwarakgole and senior public official Andrew D’bois Motsamai escalated this week after Motshwarakgole rejected demands to retract remarks described by Motsamai’s lawyers as “injurious, malicious and defamatory.”
In a response, Motshwarakgole’s attorneys, Charles Colombia Consultancy, dismissed the demand issued by Otto Itumeleng Law Chambers as “misconceived, legally untenable, and without merit,” effectively calling what they characterised as an attempt to intimidate their client into silence.
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