Cape Town Mayor Sues Tabloid With Tax Payers Money
Capetalk is reporting that Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato of the Democratic Alliance is taking legal action against Die Son, a local tabloid for libel.
What craziness!
Die Son made allegations on May 21st that Mr Plato was having extra-marital affairs, which Dan Plato claims is libelous.
Could Mr Plato not have written a letter to Die Son to deny the allegations and moved on?
Not everyone in Cape Town seeks out the tabloids and some only do so to look at the pictures.
Seriously…Dan Plato isn’t exactly interesting and surely Die Son didn’t sell one extra newspaper following that story.
How many Capetonians actually heard about the allegations and how many actually cares even if it were true?
Surprisingly the Democratic Alliance led city council – who constantly campaigned on a good governance platform - actually approved funding for such legal action.
They say suing Die Son is in the public interest. (Helen Zille actually said something similar on Capetalk when asked about the botox injections.)
How interested can we really be in the sex lives of politicians?
Actually the public in general knew nothing about the allegations until Dan Plato brought it to our attention himself.
According to IOL.co.za constitutional lawyer Pierre de Vos warned that Dan Plato should not use public funding to fight personal battles because it did not set a good precedent for using public funding to defend private matters.
Plato apparently told Die Son that the allegations were instigated by the ANC!
At least the DA is being consistent in blaming the ANC for all their wrong doings.
What a disgrace!
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