IOL News reports that Deputy National Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya’s interim interdict barring former high-ranking police member Patricia Morgan-Mashale from publishing statements on social media accusing him of corruption has been overturned.

Sibiya turned to the Bloemfontein High Court for a final interdict after he had obtained the interim interdict against her in November last year. Morgan-Mashale defended her actions by stating that her posts regarding Sibiya were the truth, in the public interest, and what she had said about him was, in any event, already public knowledge. The court, in discharging the interim interdict against her, said Sibiya had failed to disprove these defences conclusively. The court pointed out that he had an alternative course of action, as he could file a summons against Morgan-Mashale for damages and then prove defamation.

Morgan-Mashale, who describes herself as a whistle-blower, said she was presently staying in undisclosed premises. She was previously employed as an administrative clerk in the SAPS, but was dismissed. Her social media postings included allegations that Sibiya had tampered with the crime scene where the late soccer star Senzo Meyiwa was murdered. She also posted allegations that Sibiya had received bribery money from diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Zelda Venter at IOL News

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