For Vicki Momberg’s racist tirade, she should pay R150,000, court hears
Vicki Momberg should be ordered to pay R150,000 to a police officer she racially insulted‚ the Equality Court heard on Monday. In a submission in their case against Momberg, the complainant, Clement Mkhondo, and the South African Human Rights Commission said courts had, in recent years, recognised the need to act firmly against racist conduct. The case comes as the value of damages awarded by the Equality Court is on the increase. In February 2016‚ Momberg‚ who is white‚ launched into an unprovoked tirade of racial abuse peppered with the k-word‚ directed against Mkhondo‚ a black police officer. Mkhondo and two colleagues were on patrol duty when they drove into the parking lot of a shopping centre in northern Johannesburg after a vehicle driven by Momberg flashed its lights at them.
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