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Former president Jacob Zuma’s financial backer and diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg this week sought to justify the use of the K-word saying it was in a heated private conversation.
City Press reported this week that a voice recording of a conversation between him and ex-girlfriend Teresa Coetzee portrayed Liebenberg as a foul-mouthed racist who proclaimed that the apartheid government should have wiped out Soweto with an atomic bomb.
But on Tuesday, Liebenberg rebutted claims he was a racist and said the K-word was used in a heated private conversation within the context of when police were deployed to Eureka, a whites-only town in the Northern Cape.
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“It was within a private conversation that she [Coetzee] started with the K-word. I then used the context where 50 police treated old people really badly, throwing their private stuff on the ground, and acting like cowards. I got angry and my anger, I think, stems from my time at Modderbee (prison) being raped,” he said.
He then accused Coetzee of circulating the private conversation to settle a personal vendetta against him as a result of their failed romantic relationship.
He said:
In the recording, Liebenberg is heard hauling insults directed at black people.
He is heard saying:
He is also heard referring to black people in general, with one of the voice notes saying: “We have been in the country longer than the k****rs, and suddenly BEE comes and now he gets everything free because he is a k****r. He’s a k****r because he was born that way ... because he’s f**ked so much and now has 15 children.”
Liebenberg, a self-proclaimed staunch Zuma supporter, visited the former president earlier this year in Nkandla, where he presented two Nguni cattle to him.
Recently, it came to light in the Pietermaritzburg High Court that he had donated R500 000 towards Zuma’s legal fees in his private prosecution case against prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.
In court, Liebenberg and Desiree van Schalkwyk, whom he married on Saturday, posed for photos with other Zuma supporters, including Carl Niehaus and Mzwanele Manyi.
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In a video recording that Liebenberg posted on Facebook last week to explain his support for Zuma, he said he was negotiating with the former president and with ministers for a form of self-determination for white people.
“My project is partly so that there is justice towards a man who has been accused for 22 years. Zuma is not the farmer’s enemy,” he said.
