{"id":8266,"date":"2013-08-01T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2013-08-01T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:12:29","slug":"black-lobby-claims-victory-in-tuks-race-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8266","title":{"rendered":"Black lobby claims victory in Tuks race case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A judge has ordered that a case about racial transformation between the HETN lobby group and Tuks, a former Afrikaans institution, may be heard in the Equality Court.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

The lobby group Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) on Wednesday\u00a0made measurable progress in its court battle against the University of Pretoria, following a judgment that a matter between the two can be heard in the Equality Court.<\/p>\n

The HETN has challenged the slow pace of racial change in the governing structures of the university.<\/p>\n

Acting chief magistrate Daniel Thulare ruled in favour of the HETN at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. The university and its alumni board argued that the Equality Court does not have jurisdiction to hear the matter brought to it by the network earlier this year. The Tuks council, the highest governance, should also join as a respondent, ordered Thulare.<\/p>\n

Thulare said the\u00a0complaint that the university,\u00a0together with its council and the Tuks Alumni Association,\u00a0\u201care failing to take steps to reasonably accommodate the needs of blacks, women and the disabled, in order to meet the need to redress the imbalances of the past to achieve representation\u201d, should be heard in the Equality Court.<\/p>\n

Lucky Thekisho, chairperson of the predominantly black organisation, described the ruling as a\u00a0\u201cpreliminary victory\u201d for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are relieved and encouraged to note that contrary to the arguments presented by the UP and Tuks Alumni Board, that the Equality Court has agreed with our contentions and re-established the supremacy of the Constitution of the [country], the need for transformation and equality in higher education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that we shall prevail against the might of the University of Pretoria. This battle for transformation has just begun,\u201d said\u00a0Thekisho.<\/p>\n

Tuks spokesperson Nicolize Mulder told the Mail & Guardian<\/em> the judgment had nothing to do with merits of the network\u2019s claims. Declining to comment further, she said: \u201c<\/p>\n

From our side, it was merely a direction hearing to determine where the case should go from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a long-standing, bitter racial battle for control of the university, the litigation was triggered by the election of AfriForum member Willie Spies into the university\u2019s council late last year.<\/p>\n

A date for the hearing will soon be set. “We remain confident that we will attain victory in the overall outcome of the case and that justice will take its course for the benefit of the broader society,”\u00a0said Thekisho. – M&G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A judge has ordered that a case about racial transformation between the HETN lobby group and Tuks, a former Afrikaans institution, may be heard in the Equality Court. The lobby group Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) on Wednesday\u00a0made measurable progress in its court battle against the University of Pretoria, following a judgment that a matter … Continue reading “Black lobby claims victory in Tuks race case”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2747,4585,4584,4587,4586],"class_list":["post-8266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-equality-court","tag-higher-education-transformation-network-hetn","tag-racial-integration","tag-tuks","tag-university-of-pretoria"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tuksblack.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266","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=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8272,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/8272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}