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Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Sacked Sunday Times columnist David Bullard has apologised “unreservedly” to Jacob Zuma for two articles which were at the root of a R6 million lawsuit instituted by the ANC president.
In a statement on Thursday, Zuma’s spokesperson on the matter, Liesl Gattert, said the pair met at the ruling party president’s Forest Town home on Wednesday where the apology was extended by Bullard and also “unreservedly” accepted by Zuma .
The two articles Zuma found offensive were Bullard’s “Out to Lunch” columns published in the Sunday Times in April and May 2006 — and were at the root of a R6 million damages claim against Bullard and the paper.
Zuma has now decided to withdraw the two injuria claims he instituted against Bullard and his co-defendants, relating to the two articles.
The columns were titled “Stupidity a mitigating circumstance for Zuma” and “Visit the Zuma website to see what was meant”.
In the pieces, dealing with the Zuma’s 2006 rape trial, Bullard calls Zuma “stupid” and “dishonest”.
According to reports, the controversial columnist wrote that Zuma could offer stupidity in mitigation of his alleged crime.
It said that it would not be surprising given Zuma’s “lack of education and rural background”, if they were to hear that he had “rubbed his entire body with the fat of a recently slaughtered Nguni bull as protection against sexual disease, bullets, legal action and adverse media comment”.
During the peace offering Zuma offered some advice to Bullard, who was recently sacked from the Sunday Times for an article deemed racist by the paper, and urged him not to end his career as a columnist.
“We need talented journalists like yourself to write responsibly and we need journalists who have experienced the pain and humiliation of being on the wrong side of the media to share these experiences with their colleagues,” Zuma was quoted as saying.
The pair agreed that the families of the individuals who were the subject of news reports had to be considered “when these journalists exercise their freedom of speech”.
Earlier this year, Zuma announced that a host of defamation claims he had lodged against several publications were slashed to “approximately R12 million”. This was after he lodged defamation claims against the media to the tune of R63 million in 2006.
He sued media owners, publishers, editors, reporters, cartoonists and newspapers. Zuma, however, intend to proceed with the claims relating to the injury of his dignity in the remaining matters. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080508180733583C988013