‘Ol Penny Sparrow, the woman whose racist Facebook tirade set the tone for what has been a 2016 filled with vitriol.

Now according to News24 Penny has gone into hiding, something we know because the deputy sheriff in KwaZulu-Natal has been unable to serve her court papers to appear in the Equality Court.

More from that same article:

ANC attorney Peter Williams confirmed to News24 on Friday that the court granted an order on Tuesday for documents to be served on Sparrow by way of “substituted service”.

This would be through publication in the Sunday Times, The Mercury and The Star.

The court only authorises substituted services where an applicant can show that the normal forms of serving court documents could not be effected.

Normal forms include personal service or service at a person’s home, business or workplace. In Tuesday’s application, the ANC said the deputy sheriff had attempted to serve the application on Sparrow’s last employer, Jawitz Properties.

But Jawitz apparently informed him that she no longer worked there.

The sheriff communicated with her daughter Charmaine Cowrie, who stated that Sparrow was in Johannesburg but would return to KwaZulu-Natal shortly.

She refused to accept the documents on her behalf. The application stated that it was clear Cowrie was in contact with her mother but refused to divulge her whereabouts.

It further stated a tracing agency appointed to find her concluded Sparrow had been living at Cowrie’s address.

So she really thought outside of the box and has been hiding at her daughter’s house – I guess we have known for a while she wasn’t all that upstairs.

Then again it seems she succeeded, for now at least, although I’m sure that day in court will come.

[source:news24]