CARMEL RICKARD: Beware social media traps
A case to be heard by the Constitutional Court this month is important for all social media users
02 November 2023 - 05:00
Everyone who uses social media could be affected by a case to be argued at the Constitutional Court later this month.
It concerns Bool Smuts, an animal rights and environmental activist who, in October 2019, posted photographs on Facebook showing a dead baboon and a dead porcupine trapped in cages on an Eastern Cape farm owned by Herman Botha. The photos were taken by a cyclist who rode through Botha’s farm. ..
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