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SAHRC Welcomes Another Equality Court Finding that Holds Users of the ‘K-word’ to Account

MEDIA STATEMENT:

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Wednesday, 19 July 2017

The Equality Court for the District of the Cape, sitting in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, on the 14th July 2017, has once again confirmed that the use of the ‘K-word’, as a derogatory racial epithet, is in fact unlawful and bears consequences.

The Court ordered that the Respondent, Mr Trevor Kordom, tenders an apology; attend a minimum of four sensitivity training sessions with the Commission, within a period of three months; has to pay damages and that his licence as a lay preacher be suspended for a minimum of three months. The South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC or Commission) welcomes this decision and its order.

With the increased reports of racially fuelled confrontations occurring between South Africans, an order that specifically focuses on the tendering of an apology as well as sensitivity training, is essential in fostering the society envisioned by the Preamble of the Constitution: “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity”

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Issued by the South African Human Rights Commission
Gushwell Brooks, Communications Co-ordinator, 0826458573, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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