EDITORIAL: Apartheid flag has no place in new SA
Business Day supports the ruling that this symbol of hatred should be confined to public interest displays
27 August 2019 - 05:06
When he handed a limited ban on the display of the old apartheid flag last week, judge Phineas Mojapelo laid out with cogent legal clarity and a touch of Nelson Mandela’s idealism the inherent racial hatred in the gratuitous display of the flag.
Mojapelo ruled that the gratuitous display of the flag — symbolic of apartheid and the Afrikaner nationalist project — demeans and dehumanises black people. It is hate speech...
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