The Bok, the estranged wife and the booting of the cameras
In issue 5, we spoke about the Rugby World Cup win and the
players' right to privacy. On a different note, former
Springbok lock, Hannes Strydom, who was in the Springbok team that
won the World Cup in 1995, has recently been ordered to remove
security cameras from his Waterkloof home. This follows after his
wife, Nikolie, argued that her constitutional rights to privacy and
human dignity were being infringed by the cameras, that Strydom
intimidated and harassed her "emotionally, verbally,
psychologically and economically" and that there was no reason
for her to suffer "ongoing bullying".
At the end of October, Nikolie obtained an urgent interdict in
the Pretoria High Court, forcing Strydom to remove all of the CCTV
cameras in the house (where the estranged couple still lives
together, albeit in bedrooms on opposite sides) and those
overlooking the swimming pool and outside areas. It was held that
he may
