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Offline TomSea

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South African woman jailed in landmark ruling for racist rant
« on: March 28, 2018, 03:51:30 pm »
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South African woman jailed in landmark ruling for racist rant
James Macharia

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court jailed a white woman on Wednesday for yelling racist abuse at a black policeman, in a case that laid bare attitudes that endure more than two decades after the end of apartheid.

In a ruling that lawyers believed to be the first prison term imposed in South Africa for verbal racial abuse, estate agent Vicki Momberg was sentenced to three years, with one year suspended, for directing deeply offensive slurs at the officer.

Previously people convicted of the same crime have been fined.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-racism/south-african-woman-jailed-in-landmark-ruling-for-racist-rant-idUSKBN1H42DA
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Re: South African woman jailed in landmark ruling for racist rant
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2018, 03:55:15 pm »
Live in a sewer, you get full of shit.
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Re: South African woman jailed in landmark ruling for racist rant
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2018, 04:22:43 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on March 28, 2018, 03:55:15 pm
Live in a sewer, you get full of shit.

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