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An internationally renowned SA wildlife conservationist’s naming and shaming on social media of an Alicedale farmer’s barbaric but legal trapping and killing of a porcupine and baboon has been sanctioned by the Supreme Court of Appeal. Wildlife activist Dr Bool Smuts outed Alicedale farmer and insurance broker Herman Botha’s “barbaric, vile, unethical and cruel” animal trapping practices on social media in 2019.

Right to privacy must be balanced with right to freedom of expression, Appeal Court judges say

It’s not the job of courts to censor critical or impolite opinions and commentary, says the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Animal rights activist Bool Smuts won an important appeal case before the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday.

Last week a full bench of judges of the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein assembled to hear an appeal arising from the death of a baboon and a porcupine.

weekly newspaper. Secrecy, according to the 19th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, is an instrument of conspiracy and ought never to be the system of regular government. Yet bureaucracy always seeks the path of least disclosure. That path is well tramped by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (Deff). Transparent they are not. Because it’s their legal duty to provide information requested of them, they’ve become masters of diversion and diffusion. It’s not that ...