A Black South African Navy chef has taken a Cape Town police officer to the Equality Court following a racial altercation, The Times reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Phila Mnyanda claimed Sergeant Zelda Bussey, who arrested him for suspected drunk driving in 2011, called him a \u201ckaffir\u201d, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The coloured sergeant\u00a0also allegedly injured him while he was transported in the back of a police van to the district surgeon to have his blood drawn.<\/p>\n
In court papers, Mnyanda reportedly said: \u201c(Bussey) told her colleague: \u201cThis kaffir thinks he’s clever. I’ll sort him out\u201d[Die kaffir dink hy is slim. Ek sal hom uit sort].<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, I sustained physical injuries to my person as a result of the respondent’s negligent driving of the SAPS vehicle while I was in the back thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mnyanda was suing Bussey and demanding an apology.\u00a0The case\u00a0was postponed.<\/p>\n
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A Black South African Navy chef has taken a Cape Town police officer to the Equality Court following a racial altercation, The Times reported on Wednesday. Phila Mnyanda claimed Sergeant Zelda Bussey, who arrested him for suspected drunk driving in 2011, called him a \u201ckaffir\u201d, according to the report. The coloured sergeant\u00a0also allegedly injured him … Continue reading “‘This kaffir thinks he’s clever’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[818,2747,205,9296],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cape-town","tag-equality-court","tag-police","tag-racial-abuse"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14440,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions\/14440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}