"South African Jews this week celebrated what they said was an unprecedented criminal conviction, handed down for anti-Semitic Twitter posts calling for action against Jews worse than the Holocaust.
On Friday, the Randburg Magistrates Court found Matome Letsoalo guilty of crimen injuria - a crime defined as 'unlawfully and intentionally impairing the dignity or privacy of another person' - for two tweets targeting the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD).
'This was the first-ever criminal verdict in an anti-Semitism case in South Africa,' the group said in a statement...
'This outcome sends a strong message that threatening and hate-filled attacks on our community will not be tolerated and that the SAJBD will do everything necessary to bring those responsible to justice, no matter how long it takes,' the group's chairwoman, Wendy Kahn, said..."