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Qunta: Stop TAC defaming me
03/10/2007 20:36 - (SA)
Cape Town - SABC board deputy chair Christine Qunta has demanded the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to stop publishing defamatory material about her.
Qunta's legal representatives sent a letter in this regard to the TAC on Wednesday, her lawyer, Athol Gordon, said.
Gordon said: "This letter became necessary after a persistent disinformation campaign by the TAC, including a media release concerning Qunta entitled 'Unethical Promotion And Testing Of Medicine On Humans - A Judicial Investigation Into The Presidency And Health Ministry And Criminal Proceedings Against Christine Qunta Are Necessary."
Letter said Qunta was profiting
The letter noted, among other things, that media statements by the TAC were defamatory of Qunta and contained numerous falsehoods of and concerning her.
Qunta denied the TAC's defamatory claims and said that she had already responded fully to the reports by the Independent Newspapers Group and the Sunday Times, to which the TAC referred.
The letter further noted that utterances were made by the TAC on September 30 in Gugulethu that Qunta was profiting from the unlawful sale of unregistered herbal remedies that were being sold to HIV/Aids sufferers, and had called on people to mobilise and participate in a march to her offices on Thursday.
The letter demanded the TAC give a written undertaking on Wednesday that it would refrain from further publishing false statements about Qunta on its website or in any other media.
The letter further asked that the TAC refrain from organising, or inciting members of the public to participate in any illegal or unlawful gathering and/or demonstration at or near Qunta's offices - or any other place where she might be.
- SAPA
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