Sports minister fails to silence newspaper
By Khanyisa Tabata
30 October 2011
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula approached the South Gauteng High Court yesterday to try and force City Press to carry his comments on a report implicating him in a sex scandal.
His spokesperson Paena Galane says their efforts were too late as the High Court sitting would have happened after the newspaper had gone to print.
City Press editor Ferial Haffajee says Mbalula had not answered questions sent to him on Thursday afternoon.
According to the report a model claims she is pregnant by Mbalula.
The minister confirmed that he had had a relationship with her but claims it happened while he was briefly separated from his wife.
30 October 2011
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula approached the South Gauteng High Court yesterday to try and force City Press to carry his comments on a report implicating him in a sex scandal.
His spokesperson Paena Galane says their efforts were too late as the High Court sitting would have happened after the newspaper had gone to print.
City Press editor Ferial Haffajee says Mbalula had not answered questions sent to him on Thursday afternoon.
According to the report a model claims she is pregnant by Mbalula.
The minister confirmed that he had had a relationship with her but claims it happened while he was briefly separated from his wife.
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