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Thu 10 Oct 2009South Africa to protest race-based argument accepted by Dublin court
THE SOUTH African government is to lodge a protest with the Irish ambassador in Pretoria against a race-based argument that was accepted by a Dublin court leading to one of its citizens being granted temporary residency.
The decision last week by the High Court to grant South African Dianne Jefferson Irish residency for five years, partially based on her fears that she would be targeted by black criminals if deported, has reignited a race row in her country of origin.
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