ANC heavyweight Mathews Phosa on Friday won a legal battle with Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza in the latest development in the spy report saga. Mabuza filed the suit claiming Phosa had fabricated the report that said Mabuza was an apartheid security police spy and fed them information on senior ANC leaders. The High Court in Pretoria dismissed Mabuza’s R10m defamation claim (later dropped to R1m and a public apology)‚ saying that on a balance of probabilities‚ Mabuza had failed to convince the court that Phosa was the author of the spy report. "Justice has prevailed‚ I have all along said I am innocent‚" Phosa told TimesLive on Friday afternoon. "The truth has prevailed…. I have no intention to sue him and the rest of them‚ because I think they’re a bunch of fools." Judge Bill Prinsloo found that Phosa’s version of events was credible‚ and that he had given the report to ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte under honourable circumstances. The veracity of the spy report itsel...
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