Remarks that Affirmative Repositioning leader Job Amupanda made on social media about deputy finance minister Maureen Hinda are set to cost him N$100 000.
This is after acting judge Collins Parker ruled against Amupanda in a defamation case that Hinda instituted against him in the Windhoek High Court.
Parker ruled against Amupanda in a judgement delivered on Wednesday.
The judge awarded N$100 000 to Hinda. Parker also ordered Amupanda to pay her legal costs in the defamation claim she lodged against him after he made remarks about her on Facebook in July 2021 and on Twitter in January 2022.
In the first remarks, under a photo of an unknown woman, Amupanda said Hinda “was so WizWiz” during the liberation struggle, and that is was “like she won’t think twice about taking a knife out”.
Hinda claimed this was defamatory as it depicted her as “a street girl ready to fight at a moment’s notice”, among other things.
She also claimed he made a further defamatory remark about her on Twitter in January 2022, after she had filed the defamation claim against him, when he intimated that the legal action she took was the result of amorous advances from her that he rejected.
Hinda sued Amupanda for N$1 million.
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