Offensive pictures removed from Magistrates’ Court

He said he was tired of seeing the photographs with the offensive captions displayed at the tearoom, which is also used as a meeting room. The group photos are of the court staff, including magistrates, prosecutors and interpreters. Under a photograph from 1961 an interpreter is referred to as a ‘Bantu’, while the one from 1951 refers to the interpreter as a ‘native’. ‘There is no place for such language to be used in court,’ said Singh, adding that it gives some people a sense of racial superiority. He added that the captions refer to Indians as such, not in derogatory terms, ‘so why should blacks be referred to in a derogatory manner?’. Full report in The Witness