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Northern Cape (ANC) Premier guilty of hate speech |
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By: Hawk Date: March 31, 2018, 11:59 am |
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SOURCE : NEWS24 |
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https://m.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Northern-Cape-premier-guilty-of-hate-spee… |
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Northern Cape premier guilty of hate speech |
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Bloemfontein - Northern Cape Premier Sylvia Lucas, who used the |
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word "hotnot", is guilty of hate speech and unfair |
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discrimination and she has been ordered to apologise to the Khoi |
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and San people, the Equality Court in Upington ruled on Tuesday. |
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Lucas must make the apology over the radio stations that |
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broadcast her speech in 2010. She is also responsible for the |
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legal costs. |
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�This is a huge victory for the Khoi and San people, which is a |
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marginalized people. It is also a victory for justice. I truly |
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believe in the justice system,� a delighted Stanley Peterson, a |
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member of the National Khoi and San People, told News24 on |
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Tuesday afternoon shortly after the verdict. |
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Lucas said: �Hotnots are only good for clothes and food.� At the |
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time she was introducing John Block, provincial chairperson of |
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the ANC in the Northern Cape, during a budget statement at the |
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Eiland Holiday Resort on September 18 2010. The speech was |
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broadcast on five community radio stations. |
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Peterson, a former ANC member, took her to the South African |
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Human Rights Commission. Both parties appeared before advocate |
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Lawrence Mushawne, national chairperson of the HRC, in November |
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2011 during mediation. Lucas was advised to apologise, but no |
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apology materialised. |
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�This left me with no choice other than to approach the court, |
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because nobody is above the law,� said Peterson. |
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Peterson was represented by Legal Aid SA�s Annemi Duursema. |
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