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Article: Initiation on farm gets the court nod.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2009
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BYLINE: Botho Molosankwe
THE right to practise one's culture triumphed over religion in a battle taken to court for legal intervention.
When a farm manager refused to grant the occupiers permission to hold an initiation school at the farm citing religious reasons, the family approached the court for help.
This was after the family claimed that the manager, Jacob Visagie, had granted them permission in 2006.
But a month before the ceremony could take place, Visagie informed the family that they could no longer hold the school at the farm, stating among other reasons, that it was against his religious beliefs and that he feared the ...