Pieter du Toit: The old flag and the unbearable whiteness of being AfriForum

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OPINION: The old flag and the unbearable whiteness of being AfriForum | PieterDuToit

The old national flag was officially raised for the first time at a trade fair in Havana, Cuba, on March 30, 1928, a month before it was adopted in South Africa.

The flag went through a series of iterations, with numerous designs considered by various parliamentary bodies before a design was approved based on the Dutch flag, with a"bowtie" comprising the Union Jack and the two Afrikaner republican flags centred in the middle. He then went on, quite remarkably, to declare:"Apartheid has become this woolly thing, almost like racism or propaganda, it is being used to attack Afrikaners and history is much more complex than that."in 2016, Judges Edwin Cameron and Johan Froneman, both Afrikaners, lambasted the organisation for referring to"so-called apartheid" and"so-called historical injustices" in their founding papers.[the court's emphasis] historical injustices.

 

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