EXPLAINER: What exactly is hate speech and does it apply to old SA flag?

This is the question South Gauteng High Court deputy judge president Phineas Mojapelo grappled with on Monday as he heard an application by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the SA Human Rights Commission.

Listening to Afrforums argument.... They've lost the case. Amazing that as skilled lawyers they took a position of acknowledging the Plaintiffs complaint.....dim dim dim

Both extremes are burning in hell fire. Destiny.

Seriously? How this is our skin. We have far larger issues to deal with. Let’s grow a pair, harden the f up and build a successful profitable democracy for everyone.

People should know that we don't like that flag and we don't want to see it is that so hard swallow

Under watchful eyes of ANCestors nothing is safe,take a look at countries like malawi,Zambia even Zimbabwe they were under British colonial but you can not see British flag why?bcos its crime to do that,harshly punishable by the state.

Yes

Displaying the old apartheid flag should be criminalized

Imagine when your family-member is being raped and YOU FORGIVE the rapists.Jiki jiki the rapist BOASTS about such cruelty and you have to shut up bcoz they have a right to 'freedom of expression'....to me that is the most hyenas crime & needs to be dealt with decisively.

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