The Star reports that the long-delayed racism case brought by City Press reporters against their then boss Ferial Haffajee is due in court next week.  The four former reporters brought the case against then editor Haffajee in January 2014, accusing her of defaming them by calling them racists.  

They all worked at the newspaper at the time, but have all since left.  The four have claimed R3 million each from Haffajee and Media24, which owns City Press.  Although Haffajee left City Press recently, she is still a defendant in the case.  The matter is now set down for a hearing in the Johannesburg High Court on 18 August.  The dispute goes back to October 2013.  The four claim that at a City Press meeting Haffajee called them racists and "culturally superior", and accused them of "causing divisiveness".  They say she subsequently put up a notice saying, "No racists allowed", which was apparently aimed at them.  Haffajee denies defamation.  In court papers she says that she apologised to the four on three occasions for "having individualised her criticism" of them.

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