if a politician said that student leaders were tools of capitalism & terrorists . would this be defamation?
at a political party meeting at the University of New England in Natal, a leading politician attcks university students with the following words: "The student leaders at historically white universities are being used as the tools of capitalism. Not only are they tools, they are in fact terrorists, because they are working towards underminig the new democratic order in South Africa. They are forcing a confrontation with the state and if they do not mend their ways the state wiil be forced to take drastic action against them." please be advised that this is a hypothetical question and set of facts. the question is would these words amount to defamation by the politician against the students?
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It would only be defamatory if it were false.
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