Images: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images and Kirsty O'Connor/PA Images via Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesSOUTH AFRICA — March and March movement leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma has launched a defamation case against Economic Freedom Fighters MP Naledi Chirwa at the Johannesburg High Court, with papers formally filed on 21 July 2026. According to TimesLIVE, the legal action stems from statements Chirwa made following the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Nhlamulo Sambo in Mossel Bay in early June 2026. Through the court application, Ngobese-Zuma is seeking a court order compelling Chirwa to retract the statements, publish a formal apology, and commit to not repeating them. Ngobese-Zuma demands retraction and apologyNgobese-Zuma's legal representatives, Zuma and Partners Incorporated, sent Chirwa a letter of demand on 11 June. The letter went unanswered, and Chirwa went on to make comparable claims in a parliamentary address shortly thereafter.