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TimesLIVE reports that the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has welcomed a decision by the Equality Court ordering a Springs family to pay a former worker R200,000 in damages after force-feeding him faeces.
Joseph Mona was called a "useless k****r" by his employer‚ Harry Leicester‚ in December 2017 after he failed to switch on a septic tank pump. Leicester’s son Chris allegedly held his hands and dragged Mona towards the sewer hole. The farmer took a big jug‚ dipped it in the sewer hole and forced him to drink its contents while calling him a "k****r". The family members, including wife Maria, also forced Mona into the sewer hole, where he almost drowned. Magistrate Pravina Lazarus said it was clear that Mona had suffered the lowest form of humiliation and had been treated as sub-human. The court found that that utterances by each of the three family members were hate speech as defined in the Equality Act. It ordered the family members to make a written unconditional apology to Mona by 11 March. They were also ordered to attend a programme on race relations for three months at the SAHRC. The judge also ordered them to pay damages of R200,000 to Mona for the impairment of his dignity and for causing him pain and emotional and psychological suffering.
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