Read the full judgment text of HCA 001851/2005 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 December 2005.
1. Your claim is a claim in defamation and the law requires that the words about which you complain must be capable of being defamatory. The statement that you were late for work because of a traffic jam may have been made falsely. If you have been wrongly dismissed, you have a remedy for that which you are pursuing in the District Court. But to say of somebody that they are late to work because of a traffic jam is not capable of being defamatory. Neither is it capable of having any innuendo