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What's Happening at the Courthouse 15 Oct 2026 · "What's happening at the Courthouse?" with Rameez Khan

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  Speaker 1: For some, prison is where it ends. For all, court
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  Speaker 1: is where it begins.
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  Speaker 2: This ain't no TV show.
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  Speaker 1: This is the real world.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what's happening at the courthouse on KFM
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  Speaker 3: Mornings with Ramiz.
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  Speaker 4: This is when you slap your hands together and you
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  Speaker 4: rub them going, oh, this is going to be juicy.
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  Speaker 5: It's nice when you're the one listening and not the
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  Speaker 5: one being stopped by Ramiz at the courthouse.
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  Speaker 4: In trouble.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And you say lots happening today, Ramiz.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Has anyone on this team ever been served papers by
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  Speaker 4: the court?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: No. Just me then.
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  Speaker 7: For what?
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  Speaker 5: And also when you say served papers, that could mean
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  Speaker 5: many things.
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  Speaker 7: But do they actually do it like they do it
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  Speaker 7: in the movies, like Rameez Khan?
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  Speaker 1: You've been served.
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  Speaker 7: You've been served.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. I've been served a couple times. Once they
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  Speaker 4: came and knocked on my door at the house. Boom,
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  Speaker 4: there we go.
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  Speaker 7: And then what does that mean? You just have to
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  Speaker 7: go to court?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's the start of the process. That's the
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  Speaker 4: whole summons.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was once served by former President Zuma.
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  Speaker 1: Prank related.
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  Speaker 4: Slander related.
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  Speaker 7: Outside of the prank.
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  Speaker 2: So you're catching on nonsense even outside of the prank, Darren.
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  Speaker 4: You must know what it's like when you get served
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  Speaker 4: a lawsuit that says you are being sued by the
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  Speaker 4: president of the country for 49 million rand.
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  Speaker 1: You should have just paid that money, Darren.
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  Speaker 7: Imagine. Well, clearly you came out victorious.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. No, he ended up dropping the case.
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  Speaker 7: Did you frame the paper?
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  Speaker 4: No, let me tell you, it's a scary thing.
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  Speaker 1: And it is a scare tactic.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of the time, hey? It was very much a...
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  Speaker 4: They believed it was a gagging tactic.
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  Speaker 7: Interesting.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's an experience that everybody needs to experience
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  Speaker 4: once in their life.
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  Speaker 1: Just to feel alive.
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  Speaker 2: No, guys, there's already too much happening in the world.
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  Speaker 7: Let's now not still be served.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, I just want a boring life.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. Nothing else. What you hear here is... is
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  Speaker 4: everything but boring. All right, so this is what's happening
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  Speaker 4: at the courthouse. This is where Ramiz goes and patrols
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  Speaker 4: the steps of the various courthouses. The one that he
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  Speaker 4: was at yesterday was Deparel. What is happening in Deparel?
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  Speaker 4: Ramiz asking everybody one simple question.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing at the courthouse today?
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  Speaker 7: For assault case.
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  Speaker 9: My child's boyfriend threw out my window and assaulted us
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  Speaker 9: with a knife in our house.
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  Speaker 1: He threatened you with a knife?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, he came in our house.
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  Speaker 9: He was drunk, and me and my husband and my children,
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  Speaker 9: we don't drink. We are very peaceful people, but he
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  Speaker 9: came in.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 9: He was looking for my daughter. She was hiding in
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  Speaker 9: the bathroom, scared of him.
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  Speaker 1: It's her boyfriend?
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  Speaker 4: It's her boyfriend, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Is she still with him?
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  Speaker 7: She's still with him.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 9: Because they love each other. I tell her, love don't hurt.
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  Speaker 9: Love don't give you marks on your body. That is
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  Speaker 9: not love. You are confusing yourself with this guy.
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  Speaker 1: And where is she now?
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  Speaker 9: She's there in the court. She's sitting next to him.
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  Speaker 4: No. And his mother.
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  Speaker 1: And she's supporting him, not you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, she's supporting him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you didn't raise her to be this way. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 9: I raised her very well. But when she met this
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  Speaker 9: boy in school... They're from a school together. So she
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  Speaker 9: thinks it's going to be a husband one day. I
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  Speaker 9: don't know what is wrong with her. I don't know
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  Speaker 9: what's going on in her head. But she is madly
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  Speaker 9: in love with this boy that don't work. He's sitting
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  Speaker 9: all the day at the corners asking for money, drink
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  Speaker 9: and smoke.
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  Speaker 1: How does she think that he's going to provide for her?
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  Speaker 9: I think that she thinks that he's going to change.
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  Speaker 9: But when he's going to change, I don't know when
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  Speaker 9: he's going to change.
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  Speaker 1: So what did he say? Like, why did he do
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  Speaker 1: that to you?
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  Speaker 9: He didn't give me explanation. I don't want explanation. I
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  Speaker 9: want this to be sorted out here by court.
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  Speaker 1: What did he tell your daughter? What he did? Why
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  Speaker 1: he did it?
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  Speaker 7: He's so sorry what he did.
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  Speaker 4: And he want to ask me for forgiveness.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that your daughter, she's able to leave this
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  Speaker 1: man alive. Thank you very much for your time and
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  Speaker 1: have a good day.
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  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing at the courthouse today?
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  Speaker 8: I've got various cases open. Maintenance, a parent plan that
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  Speaker 8: I'm trying for three years to settle. The delay is
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  Speaker 8: because of the Hague Convention, an international agreement that South
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  Speaker 8: Africa signed in which the father claims.
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  Speaker 3: That I abducted the children.
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  Speaker 8: But according to the Hague, it's not abduction, it's wrongful retainment.
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  Speaker 1: International case as well, which means that you were living overseas, correct?
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  Speaker 8: How it works with the Hague Convention is usually for
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  Speaker 8: international parents, right?
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  Speaker 3: But just to be clear.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't take the kids in the middle of the
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  Speaker 8: night and fled and he doesn't have access to them,
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  Speaker 8: doesn't know where they are.
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  Speaker 3: In my case, it was we were in South Africa, we.
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  Speaker 8: Went to Germany for holiday and then.
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  Speaker 3: COVID kept us there. We couldn't return.
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  Speaker 8: That's the time our relationship broke down. And then he
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  Speaker 8: kept the children's passports away from me. My father fell ill.
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  Speaker 8: I came to South Africa. He brought the children to
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  Speaker 8: South Africa. And that's when I decided, hey, I've got
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  Speaker 8: a gap.
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  Speaker 3: Keep the passports. I'm keeping the kids.
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  Speaker 8: And that's actually how I managed to then stay in
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  Speaker 8: South Africa with the children. And that's when he went
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  Speaker 8: to the Hague Convention because he didn't give permission to.
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  Speaker 3: But it's going into the fourth year now. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: today here at the local court because.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just trying to get a maintenance and a parent
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  Speaker 8: plan and structure, which has been a three-year struggle.
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  Speaker 1: But where are they now, though?
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  Speaker 3: They're with me. I'm their primary caretaker. I've always been.
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  Speaker 1: How did you meet this guy?
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  Speaker 3: We met at the Ops Festival. okay in in cape
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  Speaker 3: town in.
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  Speaker 1: 2006 so he was.
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  Speaker 8: Here basically yeah he was here and we've always lived
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  Speaker 8: in south africa he's got south african id he's he's
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  Speaker 8: german national oh yes and he's got a residence permit
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  Speaker 8: he's got a paid off house so if the children
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  Speaker 8: would go to germany i don't have that i don't
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  Speaker 8: have a house waiting there for me it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Bit messy this whole thing.
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  Speaker 8: Very messy And because you ran to the Hague, I'm
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  Speaker 8: not getting any support. They can't assist because they say, well,
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  Speaker 8: it's a high court matter. I can't go to the
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  Speaker 8: family advocate. So I had to really.
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  Speaker 3: Work on my own. I litigated on my own. The
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  Speaker 3: case was dismissed. I was up against four advocates all
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  Speaker 3: by myself. I'm not a lawyer. I'm only a mom
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  Speaker 3: speaking the truth.
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  Speaker 8: But now there's this big appeal and it's just dragging
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  Speaker 8: on and dragging on.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, he comes back. on average six to
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  Speaker 3: nine times a year to South Africa.
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  Speaker 8: To visit the boys. I don't know, I like to
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  Speaker 8: call him a trust fund child, you know, just.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously he's got the means to do that.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I'm fighting for the children to remain here
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  Speaker 8: because if they would go, I can't visit nine times.
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  Speaker 8: When you look at the statistics, it's 90% of moms
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  Speaker 8: facing these charges and the Hague do not ask why
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  Speaker 8: did the mom flee. Because the Hague decides what court
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  Speaker 8: should handle the parental dispute. They literally ask a central question,
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  Speaker 8: which is, where's the habitual residence of the children?
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  Speaker 3: Where are they settled?
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  Speaker 8: And based on that answer, they say, okay, now you
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  Speaker 8: go to that country and sort out your business.
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  Speaker 3: But now he says.
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  Speaker 8: It's Germany because we were there for over two years.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the crux of the issue.
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  Speaker 1: Where were they born though?
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  Speaker 7: South Africa.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm building here as a single mom. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: making progress.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All the best. Thank you very much for sharing your story.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time.
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  Speaker 7: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 4: Bye. That sounds very complicated.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, but also what a fighter, hey?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 7: And this fight has been going on for years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pleasantly surprised to hear how optimistic she is.
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  Speaker 7: The fight continues.
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  Speaker 1: 100%.
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  Speaker 4: Taking on four advocates herself. You go, man.
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  Speaker 7: A fight across continents, essentially.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And it's always so sad, especially when there's a partner
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  Speaker 2: involved with money who could make your life significantly easier
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  Speaker 2: and who chooses not to. Even if you're not together,
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  Speaker 2: but we've got children together.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: A friend of mine is in court at the moment
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  Speaker 4: and he said he'll represent himself. And the judge strongly advised, sir,
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  Speaker 4: you need to rethink. You are going to come up
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  Speaker 4: against highly skilled advocates that know the law and you
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  Speaker 4: don't know the terminology in this courtroom, sir. Do you
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  Speaker 4: still want to represent yourself? Yes, I do. I will
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  Speaker 4: caution you again and advise you.
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  Speaker 1: And that judge has seen things, eh? He's seen things.
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  Speaker 5: And that's an ego decision, that. That wanting to represent yourself.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is an affordability thing.
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  Speaker 7: But there's also affordable options for representation. But then you
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  Speaker 7: also get the likes of like a taboo bester. I
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  Speaker 7: can do it. I can do it.
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  Speaker 1: I can do it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so, wow, okay. International courts at The Hague. I
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  Speaker 4: thought she was saying at The Hague. At The Hague court.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: The Hague.
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  Speaker 2: Also, how heartbreaking that first story, Ramiz.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And it's not unique, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you, a boyfriend coming into the house drunk
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  Speaker 2: to beat up my mother?
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  Speaker 5: And I'm hiding in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 5: Because I'm terrified as well and I'm back with him
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  Speaker 5: the next day.
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  Speaker 2: If we are dating and this is what you are
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  Speaker 2: already showing me, why would I dream up a future
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  Speaker 2: with you?
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  Speaker 7: Why am I waiting for potential? Why am I not
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  Speaker 7: listening to my mom?
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  Speaker 4: Because he'll get a job tomorrow. No.
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  Speaker 7: Also, how is he drinking and smoking if he's unemployed?
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow he'll change.
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  Speaker 7: Who is funding this man's life? Other people.
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  Speaker 5: Other people, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Enablers.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You probably know there's a few other things involved there too. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Good job, Ramiz. That's what's happening at the courthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: In Paul.
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  Speaker 9: In Paul.
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  Speaker 4: You think it's just a quiet little town there. There's
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  Speaker 4: a lot going on there. There's a lot happening. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Let's grab a song now. Oh, this is a good tune. Yoga.
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  Speaker 4: 9 to 5 here on KFM Mornings. Alright, here we've
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  Speaker 4: got some messages from the gallery about what's happening at
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  Speaker 4: the courthouse this morning. Dead first until the morning thing.
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  Speaker 4: Dead nowadays is reality. The better you are, the more
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  Speaker 4: Give us a love for you.
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  Speaker 1: Bring that boyfriend to me. Bring him to me.
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  Speaker 6: That first lady has a lot to deal with.
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  Speaker 10: I actually feel very sorry for that mother. Yo, guys,
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  Speaker 10: this is hitting quite close to home here. I've had
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  Speaker 10: an argument with my in-laws. They also don't want me
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  Speaker 10: in their house. They also don't want to accept my apology.
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  Speaker 10: I'm busy getting divorced with my wife now as well.
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  Speaker 10: And yeah, I'm about.
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  Speaker 6: To do the court thing.
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  Speaker 10: That lady sounds like she's paying a hell of a
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  Speaker 10: lot of money to go through all those trials and stuff.
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  Speaker 10: Sounds like I'm in for quite the hectic chapter coming
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  Speaker 10: up in my life.
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  Speaker 6: Guys, I'm sure there's an underlining story. The fact that
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  Speaker 6: this man is fighting so much. And even though I
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  Speaker 6: respect the woman for fighting, but there must be some
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  Speaker 6: underlining story that we'd never heard of.
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  Speaker 4: So let's take this at face value.
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  Speaker 6: That case with the mother, something there is so dodgy.
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  Speaker 6: She kept the kids away from the dad. You can't
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  Speaker 6: just do that. You have to come up with an
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  Speaker 6: arrangement first and not just keep the kids away and
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  Speaker 6: then try to set it up in court after.
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  Speaker 4: As is always the case, we only hear one side
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  Speaker 4: of the story.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But thank you for your comments from what's happening at
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  Speaker 4: the courthouse.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, Amis. You always get us talking and thinking.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and that guy that had a bit of a
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  Speaker 4: reality check, he's going to go fight that battle right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Strap in for four years. Four years of in and
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  Speaker 4: out the courts.
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  Speaker 1: Seems so.
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  Speaker 4: That's more than likely what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Clear the calendar, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And hopefully things become easier.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: When we never forget about the children.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the main priority, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: And their safety.
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  Speaker 4: That's priority number one.