Apartheid flag ‘promotes, propagates hatred against blacks’: Equality Court

“Those who display the old flag choose deliberately, not only, to display the apartheid divisive and oppressive flag, but also choose not to display a new democratic, all-uniting non-racial flag,” said Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo of the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

“It is hurtful, harmful, promotes and propagates hatred towards black people. It demonstrates a clear intention to be hurtful, to be harmful and incites harm and it, in fact, promotes and propagates hatred against black people in contravention of Section 10.1 of the Equality Act. It constitutes hate speech,” he said.In 2017, thousands of people across the country took to the streets to take part in what AfriForum described as the biggest protest against farm murders.

“This gave rise for the dispute between the National Mandela Foundation and AfriForum concerning the contemporary display of the previous official flag of South Africa.” “For the foundation it is time to acknowledge that the old flag is a symbol of what was a crime against humanity and that its gratuitous public display celebrates that crime and humiliates everyone who fought against it, especially black South Africans.”

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