Bid for kids fails in Constitutional Court

Andreas Coetsee of Nelspruit lost his Constitutional Court application for leave to appeal, in which he had asked that his ex-wife Karin be prevented from taking their two children to Abu Dhabi. Karin, from Middleburg, Mpumalanga, is an expert on cell division, and was offered a job in Abu Dhabi. She leaves soon with the children aged 10 and 12. Andreas argued in the Constitutional Court that his children are very attached to him, that they should not be estranged from their family, and that their English is not very good and that they would thus have difficulty in a foreign school. Nine Constitutional Court judges ruled unanimously that there was no possibility that Andreas's appeal would be successful.