What do you do when your political rival posts "damaging" information about you on Facebook where there is no dislike button? You go to court. That's what Athol Trollip, the DA's mayoral candidate in Nelson Mandela Bay metro, did.Trollip is suing former DA councillor Knight Mali, who defected to the ANC last month, for R1-million for defamation .Trollip said Mali defamed him with his Facebook posts on May 30 which read: "Our mayor [Danny Jordaan] cannot debate a fugitive, Athol Trollip who is running away from his farm workers that accuse him of human rights abuse and amongst other things ... paying them R80 a month, no running water or toilets for decades and illegally evicted them from the farm. The list goes on ... The irony is that during that debate, Danny went to attend a commemoration event of the Pepco3, who were brutalised & slaughtered by apartheid police & army which Athol Trollip was a member of!"In court papers Trollip said Mali's post had nothing to do with political mudslinging but was meant to cause "irreparable harm" to his reputation.He said that Mali accused him of being guilty of gross human rights abuses, racism, cruelty, exploitation, violence, land dispossession, and abandonment, and of being rude and evil.Mali laughed off the accusations."I will file a counter-claim lawsuit against Trollip due to defamatory comments he made against me."The case is politically motivated." ..