South Africa: 'Did I Just Commit Hate Speech?' - Afriforum's Ernst Roets Causes Angers People With His Apartheid Flag Tweet

Just hours after a scathing judgment banning the gratuitous display of the old South African flag, dubbed the apartheid flag, lobby group AfriForum's deputy CEO Ernst Roets took to Twitter to post a picture of the flag, asking: "Did I just commit hate speech?"

The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday declared the "gratuitous display" of the flag as constituting hate speech in terms of Section 10(1) of the Equality Act, unfair discrimination in terms of Section 7, and harassment in terms of Section 11 of the act.

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