South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma plans to sue local media for over 60m rand ($9m, £4.5m) over coverage of a rape trial in which he was acquitted. The trial ended in May. Mr Zuma was criticised for views he expressed in court on sex and HIV transmission.
Mr Zuma has named newspapers, radio stations and political cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro among those he intends to sue.
Mr Shapiro has said he will not "lose any sleep" over the threat of action.
Zapiro's cartoons, published in several different South African newspapers, satirised statements that Mr Zuma made in court on the subject of sex and HIV infection.
Radio station Highveld Stereo faces a 7m rand suit for broadcasting a satirical song called My Name is Zuma.
Mr Zuma's lawyers reportedly intended to seek 5m rand in damages from Highveld Stereo, but said they were increasing the claim after the station continued to play the song after the lawsuit had been announced.
The station has said it will fight the case, "if there is a case to fight".
Claims
The daily newspaper The Star faces four claims of 5m rand each - three of them in connection with Zapiro cartoons published in the paper.
Sunday newspapers Rapport and the Sunday Times are being sued for 10m and 6m rand respectively, while a number of other papers face suits of 5m rand each.
The rape trial dominated the South African media over a period of several months earlier this year.
Mr Zuma was accused of rape by the daughter of an old friend.
His defence argued that he had had consensual sex with the woman.
In an unrelated case, Mr Zuma is due to go on trial for corruption on 31 July, but there are reports that the prosecution may seek a further postponement to allow time for further investigation.
On Tuesday, French arms dealer Thint - Mr Zuma's co-accused in the corruption case lost its court application to have a search warrant declared invalid and documents that investigators seized from its offices last year returned.
