The Equality Court ruled that Cape Coloured Congress president Fadiel Adams' references to a City of Cape Town municipal manager as "from the Eastern Cape" constituted unfair discrimination, hate speech, and harassment.

Cape Coloured Congress president Fadiel Adams' repeated references to a City of Cape Town municipal manager as being "from the Eastern Cape" have been found to constitute unfair discrimination, hate speech, and harassment by the Equality Court, ruling that the term "Eastern Cape" was not a neutral reference to geography, but a coded racial trope intended to convey the municipal manager as inferior.