Investec’s Fani Titi wins k-word case
Court finds that the word is racially offensive when spoken by anyone of any colour
In a potentially precedent-setting case, Investec co-CEO Fani Titi has proved that his former friend Peter-Paul Ngwenya impaired his dignity by calling him a “QwaQwa k****r” in an SMS, after the Randburg magistrate’s court dismissed Ngwenya’s argument that the k-word was not racist if used by a black person.
Ngwenya’s lawyer Nqabayethu Buthelezi indicated that the politically connected businessman and former Robben Island prisoner will seek to appeal against his conviction for crimen injuria, defined as the “wilful injury to someone’s dignity, caused by the use of obscene or racially offensive language or gestures”, for using the k-word in reference to Titi...
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