The ANC has paid a punitive costs award against suspended ANCYL spokesman Floyd Shivambu, arising from a recent hate speech case in the Equality Court, a newspaper reported.

“We have been funding that case from day one,” African National Congress treasurer general Mathews Phosa is quoted as saying to Monday’s the Star newspaper.

“We [the ANC] fund all the youth league cases,” he said.

The case against Shivambu related to an incident in May 2010 when he called political journalist Carien du Plessis a “white bitch” in an sms.

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