'Xenophobic, racist and sexist': Case against DA MP Kohler Barnard goes to Equality Court | itchybyte
DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard will face an Equality Court hearing over alleged racist and discriminatory complaints made at a staff workshop, Cape Town's chief magistrate ruled after a fraught exchange on Thursday.
He expressed a concern that without Kohler Barnard's side of the story, it was difficult to tell whether the court would be involving itself in settling a"robust political debate" that could be better managed in a different forum.He told the court that he is not a member of the DA but just an employee in their office. The alleged comments in question were made in a workshop setting, so there was no question of whether it was a political dispute.
-"Black children are killing 'whiteys' with stones thrown at vehicles from bridges, 'never mind the fact that coloured or Indian people are also being killed'; also, the respondent questioned why these 'kids' were not in school." They also caused hurt and offence to himself and in conversation with his colleagues, to them too. He said that associating Zimbabweans with murder is particularly hurtful and offensive to him as his children have a Zimbabwean mother and some of their colleagues were born in Zimbabwe.
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