NATIONAL NEWS - Anti-Racism Week which has just passed, happened to coincide with several events forcing South Africans to explore the country’s divisive racial politics.

Not least of all was the sentencing procedures of crimen injuria convict Vicki Momberg on Friday. The former estate agent’s sentencing was postponed to March 16, after a testimony by social worker Daphnie Naidoo was heard.

She told the Randburg Magistrate’s Court that Momberg showed no remorse and had to apologise.

Momberg was convicted of crimen injuria after calling black police officers who were trying to help her after an attempted hijacking k****rs in 2016.

The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation said cases such as that of Momberg and Penny Sparrow, another estate agent who was fined for spewing hatred against black people, needed far more redress than a fine and a short prison sentence.

Stirring debate and outrage on social media during the sentencing was Momberg’s utterances to a parole officer during an interview in which she said that calling a black person a k****r was not an insult and it only became one if said black person believed they were a k****r.

“I think someone who thinks like that would have to read Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s judgement on a case of a dismissed Sars employee who was fired for using the same word against a fellow employee,” said the Foundations director Neeshan Balton.

Read more on the Caxton publication, The Citizen.