Some then used this case to ask what it all tells us about post-apartheid South Africa, its justice system, the advances that have been made.
"The board used this case to legislate from a political perch," he said.
The court should have used this case to clearly state that government funds cannot be used to support discrimination.
Rather than focus on technicalities that few people understand, it could have used this case to examine what it means to be public and how social media results in more, not less, disclosure.
The hardest to respond to was a man who said I'd missed the point completely, in that I should have used this case to argue for the free flow of all drugs around the world and that no one should be punished for carrying a plant in their luggage.
Russell A. Bergeron Jr., chief press officer for the immigration agency, said, "The attorneys and the advocates for the alleged Adelaide Abankwah used this case to lambaste the I.N.S. by charging that we opposed the concept of a woman gaining asylum based on female genital mutilation".
