{"id":55343,"date":"2014-04-04T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T09:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55343"},"modified":"2014-04-04T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T09:35:50","slug":"da-wins-sms-court-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55343\/da-wins-sms-court-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"DA wins SMS court battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An SMS the DA sent to over 1.5 million prospective Gauteng voters accusing President Jacob Zuma of stealing public money was fair comment, the High Court in Johannesburg ruled on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Judge Mike Hellens, who had heard arguments on Wednesday from both the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance, said the ANC&#8217;s application was dismissed with costs.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party wanted the DA to retract the SMS, stop sending it and apologise, or be fined up to R200,000.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Nkandla<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nkandla IT gaffe leaves SIU red-faced\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/55315\/nkandla-it-gaff-leaves-siu-red-faced\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nkandla IT gaffe leaves SIU red-faced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How Nkandla\u2019s millions could have been better spent\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/54580\/how-nkandlas-millions-could-have-been-better-spent\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Nkandla\u2019s millions could have been better spent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Service delivery money used for Nkandla\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/54577\/service-delivery-money-used-for-nkandla\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Service delivery money used for Nkandla<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An SMS the DA sent to over 1.5 million prospective Gauteng voters accusing President Jacob Zuma of stealing public money was fair comment, the High Court in Johannesburg ruled on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,1875,5170,2061,213],"class_list":["post-55343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-anc","tag-cellphone","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-sms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55343","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=55343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55344,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55343\/revisions\/55344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}