Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that a wealthy businessman, Mr Deven Pillay, who painted the words "I am a monkey" on the chest of an African child attending his daughter's birthday party, was ordered to unconditionally apologise and pay R15 000 in damages to the child's father;
2) further notes the presiding magistrate of Durban's Equality Court, Adv John Sander, ruled that the discrimination suffered by the child and his father "strikes at their human dignity and the heartbeat of our democracy and our Constitution"; and
3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the strongest possible terms Mr Pillay's crass racist act and the insulting behaviour directed at the child.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.