Former HuffPost SA editor to appeal ombud ruling
31 July 2017
Cape Town – Former Huffington Post South Africa editor Verashni Pillay will on Monday argue for leave to appeal a Press Ombudsman ruling that a blog published on the website constituted hate speech.
Pillay will present her argument to the Press Appeals Panel of South Africa, chaired by Judge Bernard Ngoepe.
Civil body AfriForum has been listed as a respondent. The group was one of the original complainants to the ombudsman following the publication of the blog.
Pillay resigned as editor of HuffPost SA following the ombudsman's findings on April 22 that a blog titled "Could it be time to deny white men the franchise?" was "malicious" and "discriminatory".