Equality court grants SA Chinese community victory against hate speech

Ten Facebook users were ordered to pay damages for their defamatory comments

28 July 2022 - 20:19 By Franny Rabkin

After a five-year legal battle, the Chinese Association on Thursday won a landmark victory in the equality court, which ordered 10 people to apologise and pay damages for hate speech — for comments posted on Facebook directed at the Chinese community...

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