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Anglican priest takes rape accuser to high court after she names him on social media

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Reverend June Dolley-Major, a former priest in the Anglican Church of South has been summonsed to the Western Cape High Court by a male Anglican priest who she has accused on social media of raping her in 2002.

The man she accused of raping her has applied for a cost order to the court and is asking the court to instruct Dolley-Major to remove the defaming posts.

In 2020 Dolley-Major went on a hunger strike and camped outside the home the Archbishop of Cape Town. The church then started a mediation process. After the process failed Dolley-Major went on social media and named the alleged perpetrator.

In terms of South African law a person who has not pleaded cannot be named.

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