Rea Gopane – I won’t pay Bonang Matheba a cent

Rea Gopane – I won’t pay Bonang Matheba a cent

Rea Gopane says he will not be paying Bonang Matheba a dime following court’s decision last week, that he’s relied upon to pay the star R300 000 for criticism.

Rea stigmatized Queen B on one of the episodes of his webcast last year.

“We know AKA, we should not stow away from reality. Scoop (TV moderator Scoop Makhathini) let us know that AKA is on cocaine and Bonang is the one that got him onto cocaine. Scoop let us know that, so we realize that AKA is into hard medications,” he said.

Last week, the youngster said Bonang is capricious over the R300k, and he’s gotten back to online media to say he will not be paying a penny.

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The media personality released an official statement after winning the case against Rea.

It is with a great deal of humility that I acknowledge and welcome the vindicating and ground-breaking ruling by Judge Malindi of the High Court of Johannesburg, South Africa on 27 January 2022.

Following several false and defamatory attacks on my reputation by a certain Mr Gopane, and only after two written requests to desist which were ignored, I instituted an action for compensatory damages in the Johannesburg High Court.

After hearing an argument relating to the unlawful conduct of Mr Gopane the court upheld my claim for damages, and in a precedent-setting judgment, ordered that Mr Gopane pay damages in the amount of R300,000 plus the legal costs of the action.

I trust that this judgment be a lesson to individuals lke Mr Gopane that there are consequences for abusing public platforms to defame and humiliate others.