.~CHP~. \ AC H p R /'; African Commission on Hurnan Rights our " ~ Human and Peoples' Rights Collective Responsibility remedy and can pursue it without impediment. 35 The Complainant is legally represented and should therefore have effectively exhausted all known and available local remed ies through the assistance of his representatives. 63. The Commission notes that, indeed , according to the South African legal system , the Complainant had the option of approaching the Labour Court for relief to get his Persal Number unblocked. However, he did not utilise this procedure. 64. Furthermore, the South African Uniform Rules of Court grant a Respondent in a motion proceeding to enroll a matter for hearing on the roll if the Applicant in a matter fails to apply for the date. While this may be an unlikely occurrence on the part of the Respondent, who may not have any direct interest in ensuring the finalisation of this matter, it buttresses the notion that there were other available avenues the Complainant could have benefited from, in exhausting domestic remedies , before approaching the Commission. 65. In any event, the Commission takes cognisance of the fact that the Complainant did not actively prosecute his claim from the beginning to justify his cases being heard on an urgent basis. This situation arose after his dismissal in 2004. However, the Complainant did not actively and urgently prosecute the matter until 2021. Instead , he relied on unofficial information from third parties as opposed to following due process. The Complainant should have followed the proper court proceedings and exhausted all local remedies . There was no apprehension of any injustice in exhausting local remedies, which would warrant an exception to the mandatory rule . 66. In Obert Chinhamo v Zimbabwe, the Commission drew inspiration from the UN Human Rights Committee which stated that "the mere fact that a domest_ic remedy is inconvenient or unattractive, or does not produce a re 35 Communication 147/ 95 and 149 / 96 - Sir Dawda K Jawara v. Gambia (2000) _