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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Monday 29 April 2024

Quotes

‘Rebels broke my womb.’

– DRC teenager Amina Kazera recounting how she was abducted from her village several years ago

 

‘One doesn’t expect violence to break out at a sanctuary, but when I put on my psychology hat, this is what we call termination anxiety. We are dealing with a human issue here, a desperate situation.’

– Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba who was assaulted by refugees at a church in Cape Town on Friday

 

'For three days, the plaintiff was not only deprived of her liberty, but was subjected to forced anatomical examination in the most crude and naked manner by adventurous members of the police.’

– Justice Francis Bere of the High Court (Bulawayo) who ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs and the police to pay a transgender woman US$1 000 as compensation for her unlawful arrest in 2004. The 53-year-old activist was arrested for allegedly using a women's toilet at a city hotel.

 

‘I ultimately fell out with the Democratic Alliance over matters of principle. Simply put, I discovered that the party didn’t have any. It was schizophrenic. It was difficult to tell who was in charge. It used words like ‘redress’ in its slogans, but its conservative caucus in Cape Town didn’t believe redress was necessary. Nationally, it projected itself as a transforming, non-racial party, while behind the scenes, young white males with laptops called all the moves.’

– Former Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille on why she left the official opposition Democratic Alliance