Penny Sparrow ordered to pay R150‚000 for racist Facebook rant
10 June 2016 - 16:40
Retired KwaZulu-Natal estate agent Penny Sparrow has been ordered to pay R150‚000 to the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation after being found guilty of hate speech. In his judgment‚ Equality Court magistrate Irfaan Khalil said the words posted by Sparrow on her Facebook page on January 3 constitute hate speech and were a serious affront to human dignity and black people in general.
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