South Africa's Equality Court has restricted the display of the country's old apartheid-era flag, ruling that its use amounts to hate speech and racial discrimination.
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's Equality Court on Wednesday restricted the display of the country's old apartheid-era flag, ruling that its gratuitous use amounts to hate speech and racial discrimination.
The orange, white and blue flag of South Africa's previous white-minority regime, which enforced the system of racial discrimination known as apartheid, was replaced by a new flag when the country achieved majority-rule democracy in 1994. Mandela, South Africa's first black president after decades of white-minority rule and who died in 2013, is credited with spearheading the country's peaceful transition to full-rights for all citizens.
The ruling was hailed as a"national victory," by Dakota Legoete, the spokesman for South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress. He said the ruling as similar to the banning of the Nazi swastika in Germany."The judge was clear that we have to work together with others, including Afriforum, to do what the Constitution says we must do," Mandela Foundation CEO Sello Hatang said at the courthouse immediately following the ruling.
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