Kunene was taken to court along with The Sunday Independent on Tuesday by one of the women who was linked to Ramaphosa.

The Weekly Xposé had published graphic sexual videos which the woman allegedly sent to Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa is not in the videos.

The case was postponed for hearing on Wednesday.

Attorney Nomaswazi Maseko‚ representing the applicant‚ said that the woman has since been embarrassed by people approaching her in public.

“We are here on an urgent basis to try and prevent people viewing this video on Weekly Xposé. What we are alleging is that she is identifiable and she’s been approached by people that she doesn’t know who say: ‘Oh you are the porn star’‚” said Maseko.

Kunene said he could not comment on the nature of the editorial decision taken to publish the videos.

“I don’t want to go into the details of the case yet. We believe that this matter is not urgent and we have reasons that we have set out. We believe that it is in the interest of the public that these videos be left on the website‚ Weekly Xposé‚” Kunene said outside court.

“We have done our bit because we blurred them out of respect‚ but at the end of the day as you may well know‚ people want proof‚” added Kunene.

The Sunday Independent said it will not publish any pictures or videos relating to the alleged sex scandal.

However‚ editor Steven Motale said the paper will use “all material in our possession” to continue with a series of stories into Ramaphosa’s alleged extramarital affairs.

Motale and The Sunday Independent were initially listed in the application but he told reporters the publication reached an agreement with the woman.

“Her lawyers wrote to us demanding on her behalf to make an undertaking that we will never‚ in all our official articles‚ use the videos in our possession. We didn’t have a problem with that so we are not contesting [the application]. However‚ all material in our possession except for video and pictures‚ we are still going to use … we won’t budge on that‚” said Motale.