{"id":4349,"date":"2013-04-30T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T08:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2013-04-30T08:28:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T08:28:45","slug":"anc-womens-league-to-approach-equality-court-over-angies-panties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"ANC Women&#8217;s League to approach Equality Court over &#8216;Angie&#8217;s panties&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4350\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/angie_panty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4350\" title=\"angie_panty\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/angie_panty-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/angie_panty-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/angie_panty.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The protest image in question<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ANC Women&#8217;s League intends approaching the Equality Court after protesting teachers displayed a pair of panties they said belonged to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The [African National Congress&#8217;s Women&#8217;s League] noted with dismay disturbing media reports about some Sadtu members publicly displaying a piece of underwear attributed to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga during last week&#8217;s protest march,&#8221; Limpopo ANCWL secretary Maleke Mokganyetsi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They must face the full wrath of our criminal justice system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Describing the SA Democratic Teachers&#8217; Union as &#8220;counter-revolutionary&#8221;, Mokganyetsi said protesters who displayed the panties in Pretoria on Wednesday had to be condemned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We refer to the short-sightedness and stupidity of a female-dominated union that humiliates and suppresses other women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sadtu protest was a call for the resignation of Motshekga and her director general Bobby Soobrayan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A photograph of the large panties shows them being stretched across a piece of wire. The slogan &#8220;Puluma ya Angie&#8221; is written in black pen across its front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are very much disappointed in those who are suppose to teach our children about sexual violence and gender discrimination, but opt to promote it in our streets,&#8221; said Mokganyetsi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sadtu spokesman Mugwena Maluleke said earlier this week the union was non-sexist and promoted equality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We therefore cannot condone such an act,\u201d Maluleke said. &#8211; SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC Women&#8217;s League intends approaching the Equality Court after protesting teachers displayed a pair of panties they said belonged to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. &#8220;The [African National Congress&#8217;s Women&#8217;s League] noted with dismay disturbing media reports about some Sadtu members publicly displaying a piece of underwear attributed to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ANC Women&#8217;s League to approach Equality Court over &#8216;Angie&#8217;s panties&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[460,2714,2716,2717,2715,206,2718,12250],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-angie-motshekga","tag-angies-panties","tag-basic-education","tag-minister","tag-panty","tag-protest","tag-sadtu","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/angie_panty.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}