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However, they will be subject to community service and fines for displaying the flag, which had sometimes been exhibited by far,the custodian of former president and freedom fighter,Outside of the court, the foundation’s CEO.“We must be a nation that celebrates our diversity instead of fighting over our differences,” she said.majority-rule democracy in 1994, implementing a constitution with laws to prevent racial discrimination.
“We must be a nation that celebrates our diversity instead of fighting over our differences. For it to be hate speech, it must be coupled with a call to action to inflict harm.”,Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox.You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter!This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. It says there could be repercussions to displaying it but implies that it’s a civil rather than police matter.Essentially, don’t carry the flag at the next Afriforum march. Ethiopian in Talks With South African Flag Carrier on Rescue Loni Prinsloo, Samuel Gebre and Layan Odeh 9/3/2020. Except that they haven’t. Predictably, vast swathes of sheep across South Africa have been celebrating yesterday’s court ruling effectively banning the old South African flag.
Mainstream and social media are rejoicing as if they’ve slayed a dragon.Instead, they’re feeding the monster the Nelson Mandela Foundation has created.And that’s precisely what’s happening in response to the announcement. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Banning stuff simply pushes that stuff into the shadows where it festers and grows. A South African court has banned many displays of the country’s former flag, ruling that they constituted hate speech, discrimination, and harassment. It’s almost as if the old flag - and variations thereof - are becoming a symbol of resistance.Just because I oppose drug prohibition does not mean that I want to consume drugs. All rights reserved. The foundation, which is.“Gratuitous displays of the old flag express a desire for black people to be relegated to labour reserves, a pining for the killing, the torture, the abductions, a melancholia for the discrimination, the death squads, the curfews and the horrific atrocities committed under the flag,” the foundation said in the statement.The Equality Court has today ruled that gratuitous displays of the old flag are legally hate speech! As I celebrated the emphatic victory of the Blue Bulls over the Chiefs on Saturday, a bad taste was left in my mouth when I saw an old South African flag waving in the stadium. Judge Phineas Mojapelo’s ruling may result in both sides claiming victory. The constitution also created the Equality Court, meant to protect equal rights for all citizens.Frederick Brownell, who died in May at the age of 79.was meant to symbolise the unity of the previously segregated racial groups.“Those who display the old flag choose deliberately to not only display the old flag, but also consciously and deliberately choose to not display the new, multiracial flag,” Mojapelo also said during the ruling. January 1989.
Is it a boer displaying it over his fireplace whilst hiring a black maid to clean weekly?Update: Afriforum’s Ernst Roets posted the old flag on his twitter after the judgement.
©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. "When we interpret freedom of expression, we must do so through the lens of dignity and equality. Predictably, vast swathes of sheep across South Africa have been celebrating yesterday’s court ruling effectively banning the old South African flag.
It was officially replaced by the multicoloured “Rainbow flag” after South Africa achieved,Many hailed the verdict as progress for South Africa, where, despite the end to minority rule, tensions remain high as the nation is gripped by wide economic disparities, rampant.Dakota Legoete, spokesman for the ruling African National Council party, said the court’s decision was a “national victory”.Nathi Mthethwa, the minister of sport, arts and culture, tweeted that the ruling was “in the spirit of” the South African constitution which calls for the healing of “the divisions of the past.”,The Congress of South African Trade Unions said that “if the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag can be denounced in Germany and America, there is no reason to keep glorifying the apartheid flag.”,comprised of three stripes of orange, white and blue with the emblems of,Britain, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic at its centre –,During the ruling, Judge Phineas Mojapelo said.“It demonstrates a clear intention to be hurtful, to be harmful and incite harm and it, in fact, promotes and propagates hatred against black people … it constitutes hate speech,” Mojapelo said.Offenders will not face arrest.
He argued that banning the flag would set a "dangerous precedent".However, Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, countered that freedom of expression was not a founding value of the constitution. A win for democracy and all South Africans!The old flag was adopted in 1928, 20 years before the formal promulgation of apartheid laws in 1948. South Africa. The Equality Court, sitting at the South Gauteng High Court, will deliver its judgment on the possible banning of the old South African flag. That flag is right up there with the use of the word “kaffir” as far as I’m concerned.