Mbalula says Facebook ranter's punishment should be lesson for other racists
Leonie Pretorius
13 June 2016
An SAHRC order
that Capetonian Matthew Theunissen must carry out sport community service
following his racist rants should serve as a lesson for others, Sports Minister
Fikile Mbalula said today.
Mbalula said in a
statement that the restorative measures the commission
has recommended should serve as a teaching moment to racist people who believe
some sporting codes are an exclusive right of one race against the other.
Last week, the SA Human Rights
Commission announced that a settlement agreement had been reached with
Theunissen – who had vented on Facebook about transformation in
sport – whereby he will do community service for sports development
in a disadvantaged part of Cape Town.
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