‘Those who publicly hold up or wave the old (apartheid-era) flag convey a brazen, destructive message that they celebrate and long for the racism of our past’, South Africa’s Supreme Court says
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a ruling that the “gratuitous” public display of the country’s old apartheid-era flag amounts to hate speech and racial discrimination and can be prosecuted.
Arguments over that specific matter should first be presented to the lower court that initially banned the flag in 2019, the Supreme Court said. Afriforum, a lobby group that says it represents the interests of South Africa’s white Afrikaans people, challenged the banning of the flag in the Supreme Court, saying such a “wide-reaching ban” was an infringement of the right to freedom of expression.
The fate of the orange, white and blue flag has been a highly charged issue in South Africa, particularly for the country’s Black majority, many of whom view it as an overt symbol of the institutionalized racism and brutality of the apartheid regime.
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