Snowy Smith finally gets his comeuppance

Own correspondent

Smith had told the court he was not an anti-Semite and that he was distributing what was already on the Internet and YouTube, most of it posted by “the Jews”. He cited a list of what he described as “experts”, mostly Holocaust denialists, whose work he said he had researched and established to be the truth.

Magistrate Aletta Moolman didn’t agree with Smith and issued an immediate temporary restraint order against him.

About two days later, Smith issued an urgent interdict in the High Court but it was struck off the roll by Justice Dhaya Pillay, who ordered that Smith pay legal costs of the respondents.

Smith’s original e-mail recipients included a Durban attorney, a Cape Town news editor, a Cape Town teacher and a prominent South African businessman and former high court justice. He only cared that all were Jewish and lodged complaints.

Last year Smith had threatened to sue the Board for R10m for defamation after they had lodged a complaint on behalf of the Jewish community with the Equality Court.

Kluk told SA Jewish Report she was happy at the judgment of hate speech and that that Smith’s interdict was dismissed.

“There is no place for hatred of this kind in these fragile times,” she said.

Also read ANTI-SEMITE LAMBASTED BY DURBAN EQUALITY COURT published by JR Online on December 15:

“The e-mails impinge adversely on the dignity of the Jewish people and constitute hate speech against people of the Jewish faith or belief and ethnic origin!” READ TODAY’S COMPLETE RULING ON PDF by Magistrate Aletta Moolman of the Durban Equality Court. Board President Mary Kluk applauded the ruling saying that racism in this country will not be tolerated and that religious, ethnic and minority groups are protected within the laws of this country by this important ruling. And Snowy Smith is surely, now licking his wounds…