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<p><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">Early in 2016, a racist outburst by a white woman in KwaZulu-Natal, Penny Sparrow, </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">ridiculing Black beachgoers as ‘monkeys’, and announcing that thenceforth she would </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">‘address the [B]lacks of South Africa as monkeys’, published in her online profile, was quickly </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">disseminated countrywide. It convulsed South Africa in shame and acrid anger. </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">The [Constitutional] Court </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">was not unaffected. Previous members of the Constitutional Court took comfort in reflecting, </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">with evident satisfaction, on the absence of racially loaded and racially defined splits.</span> <span dir="ltr" role="presentation">Dramatically, these now fractured the Court.</span></p>
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