{"id":54694,"date":"2014-03-22T21:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T19:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=54694"},"modified":"2014-03-22T21:18:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T19:18:25","slug":"gumede-to-serve-summons-on-sunday-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/54694\/gumede-to-serve-summons-on-sunday-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumede to serve summons on Sunday Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Robert Gumede&#8217;s legal team plans to serve a summons on the Sunday Independent soon, his lawyers said on his behalf on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The legal team] are quantifying the damage to his reputation and the irreparable losses suffered by his companies which operate globally as a result of the defamatory article, which damages will exceed R1 billion,&#8221; Brian Kahn Incorporated said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Gumede threatened to sue the newspaper, deputy editor Japhet Ncube, and reporter Mogomotsi Magome over an article published on March 2 headlined &#8220;ANC funder probed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The report claimed that Gumede&#8217;s JSE-listed IT firm Gijima was the subject of an investigation authorised by President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>The report alleged that Zuma signed a proclamation for the SIU to probe the R360m tender awarded by the rural development department to Gumede&#8217;s company.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on this<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"IT mogul\u2019s R1 billion legal threat response\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/98962-it-moguls-r1-billion-legal-threat-response.html\"><strong>IT mogul\u2019s R1 billion legal threat response<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA IT billionaire to hit Independent Newspapers with R1 billion lawsuit: report\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/98722-sa-it-billionaire-to-hit-independent-newspapers-with-r1-billion-lawsuit-report.html\"><strong>SA IT billionaire to hit Independent Newspapers with R1 billion lawsuit: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gijima welcomes SIU probe\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/97913-gijima-welcomes-siu-probe.html\"><strong>Gijima welcomes SIU probe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Robert Gumede&#8217;s legal team plans to serve a summons on the Sunday Independent soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[7651,641,26,6043,7652,7653,2781],"class_list":["post-54694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-brian-kahn","tag-gijima","tag-headline","tag-independent-newspapers","tag-japhet-ncube","tag-mogomotsi-magome","tag-robert-gumede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54696,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54694\/revisions\/54696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}