Apartheid Flag Tweet to Land South African Lobbyist in Court?
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has filed an urgent High Court application to declare AfriForum's deputy chief Ernst Roets in contempt of court. This comes after Roets tweeted a picture of the old flag shortly after an Equality Court ruling which declared that gratuitous display of the flag used during the apartheid era constitutes hate speech.
AfriForum Deputy Chief Ernst Roets (file photo).
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The Equality Court has ruled that the gratuitous display of the flag used during the apartheid era constitutes hate speech and incites hatred against black people in terms of the ... Read more »
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Does the display of the old flag constitute hate speech and harassment? This is the question the Equality Court must answer as the Nelson Mandela Foundation and lobby group ... Read more »