Supra wants courts to make his enemies stop calling him corrupt – report

According to a City Press report, North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo has asked for an urgent court interdict against people saying things about him he doesn’t like.

He claims a local group of businessmen are involved in a smear campaign against him. He reportedly wants the leaders of the North West Business Forum to be barred from making any “defamatory statements” against him, such as that he is corrupt.

They, in turn, have asked that he submit to a lifestyle audit to prove he’s not corrupt.

City Press says the premier is hoping the matter will be dealt with urgently. He has reportedly not appreciated being compared to some of the world’s worst dictators.

He was particularly aggrieved about an open letter from the forum implying that he had something to do with the murder of businessman Wandile Bozwana, who had been part of the forum and was shot and killed in 2015.

The paper quotes the premier’s legal papers as saying: “The reference to some of the world’s most brutal dictators and the violence that characterised their removal [I refer to Idi Amin and Fulgencio Batista, who was a dictator of Cuba] is clearly meant to be understood by myself that a similar fate will befall myself. [The forum leaders] have made it clear that they now intend to intensify their campaign against me.”

The forum’s spokesperson told City Press they were looking forward to ventilating their views of Mahumapelo in court.

“He must bring it on so that we can lay bare his alleged corrupt activities. We are ready for him and we remain steadfast and undeterred … we’ll see him in court,” Sello Mogodiri is quoted as saying.

Mahumapelo has been linked to the so-called Premier League that steadfastly supports President Jacob Zuma.

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