Ah, the poor SA Human Rights Commission. It’s a once-admirable concept that’s descended into bleakly surreal irrelevance.
The often superficial and contradictory findings of the “hate speech” cases it’s brought before the specially convened Equality Courts are having a torrid time with regular appeal challenges and reversals. Political expediency and moral opportunism rarely survive honest judicial scrutiny.
But the SAHRC is as indefatigable as an untrainable puppy. Despite repeated slap-downs with a rolled-up newspaper, they’re still pissing on the Persian carpet and