Diergaardt (late Captain of the Rehoboth Baster Community) et al. v. Namibia (No.
These instructions barring the use of Afrikaans do not relate merely to the issuing of public documents but even to telephone conversations.
Consequently, the Committee finds that the authors, as Afrikaans speakers, are victims of a violation of article 26 of the Covenant" (Para.
).Members Abdalfattah Amor, Nisuke Ando, P. N. Bhagwati, Lord Colville, Maxwell Yalden and Rajsoomer Lallah filed four dissenting opinions on Article 26; members Elizabeth Evatt, Eckart Klein, David Kretzmer, Cecilia Medina Quiroga and Martin Scheinin filed two concurring opinions on the same issue.
Elizabeth Evatt and Cecilia Medina Quiroga filed a concurring opinion on Article 27.