Celebrity photographer, Dumani Khuzwayo, has successfully sued controversial blogger Musa Khawula. The 31-year-old Khawula, who has rubbed many the wrong way ,was ordered to pay R500 000 to Dumani by Judge Jordaan on the 2nd March 2023 at the Joburg High Court.

PUNISHED FOR DEFAMATORY REMARKS

Judge Jordaan said, "Having read the documents filed of record, heard evidence and submissions by counsel, and having considered the matter, the following order is made, "It is ordered that the respondent pay the sum of R500 000.00 to the applicant, interest on the aforesaid sum of R500 000.00 at the rate of 9.75% per annum a tempore mora until date of payment in full; the respondent issue public apology and unconditional retraction in writing and published on the respondent's various social media platforms in which the respondent published the said utterances."  The court ordered that Musa removes all the defamatory utterances or tweets he made, and that he makes a written undertaking that he will refrain from making any further false, defamatory, or hurtful statements about or concerning Dumani.

UNDERMINING HIS REPUTATION

Trouble started when Musa accused Dumani of being among young boys pimped to old geezers for sex in exchange for money.
In the court papers, which we have seen, Dumani said the controversial blogger took to his Twitter account (@MusaKhawula) on January 28 and alleged that a Gauteng pimp had booked him to have unprotected sex with men at the club. Khawula's tweet, which was attached to the papers, reads in part: "He is going to get Aids very quickly because nobody wants to use rubber ever that's given.' Dumani said with those remarks, Khawula  implied that he was HIV-positive and therefore the allegations, which were seen and re-tweeted by some of Khawula's 183?000 followers, were defamatory, hurtful and intended to deliberately humiliate him and undermine his reputation.

MUSA IS UNBOTHERED

Khawula has a love-hate relationship with some of the media personalities whom he  featured on his now suspended Twitter account. Problems for the controversial blogger seem to be piling up. On March 8, Khawula appeared in Vredenburg Magistrate's Court where a pre-trail conference was supposed to take place after he was accused of the fatal stabbing of his alleged ex boyfriend Wandile Khambule on 4 March last year.
Meanwhile, despite having his Twitter account suspended, Khawula made a grand entrance on the social media scene again. He  reintroduced himself on a YouTube channel with over 50 000 subscribers.He has already courted controversy on his YouTube channel - by dragging the name of one of SA's popular polygamists, Musa Mseleku's family. Some celebrities have already threatened to sue him, including Mseleku.