The Weekend View

South African Human Rights Commission takes on unconstitutional garnishee orders


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The SA Human Rights Commission will be taking action against what it calls unconstitutional garnishee orders.The Commission was recently friends of the court in a class action case brought by the Stellenbosch University Legal Aid Clinic, on behalf of 12 farm workers, against various micro lenders. The Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of the farmers citing the debt collecting procedure used by the micro-lenders was unconstitutional and an assault on human dignity. We spoke to South African Human Rights Commissioner, Mohamed Shafie Ameermia...
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