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The Constitutional Court has ruled that the DA was within it rights when it said in an SMS that President Jacob Zuma had stolen money.
The Court on Monday set aside the ruling by the Electoral Court that an SMS calling president Zuma a thief, fell short of the test for fair comment.
The DA sent an SMS to 1.5 million voters in Gauteng last March ahead of the election, in which it said that the Nkandla report had showed how Zuma had stolen their money to build his Nkandla home and urged them to vote DA.
The SMS followed findings by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela that Zuma and his family unduly benefited from some of the R246 million rand spent in security upgrades to his KwaZulu-Natal homestead.
