A chaotic attempt to secede three provinces, abolish the term “coloured” and secure a payout of $10m for each of SA’s nine million “aboriginal descendants” has failed in the Cape Town high court.
But Judge Vincent Saldanha said his decision was based in law and did not reflect a lack of sympathy with the “marginalisation and dispossession of ... indigenous people”.Saldanha also acknowledged “the destruction of the culture and heritage of indigenous communities over many centuries by the diabolical ventures of settler colonialists and subsequently through the evil machinations of apartheid”.
“It is the very constitution they so reject that is their strongest weapon against their marginalisation,” he said, adding that he was sending a free copy of the constitution to Sabina Clarisse, who led the group’s court fight. She said the aboriginal people dismissed other indigenous groups as “Nguni settlers” and lumped them together with European colonialists as “intruders”.
If they had accepted the legal representation offered to them, he said, “they may have ... better conceptualised and framed a proper action”. The SA coat of arms includes words in the Khoisan language of the /Xam people that mean 'diverse people unite'.These were people who “find emotive resonance with the claims of marginalisation and the perceived disregard [for them] by state institutions in the transformative programmes of affirmative action”.
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