Breaking: It’s now ‘illegal’ to display the apartheid flag in South Africa It's a historic day for South Africa, following the Equality Court's ruling on the apartheid flag. Instead, they’re feeding the monster the Nelson Mandela Foundation has created. If the old South African flag is banned because it's offensive to certain people‚ then the rainbow "gay flag" could be banned too - according to AfriForum.
The court made exceptions for use of the flag that served the public interest, such as art, academia or journalism.Mojapelo did not mince words in addressing the Old Flag’s discriminatory symbolism under apartheid South Africa, in which black Africans and other people of color were legally segregated from white people from 1948 until the early 1990s.“The dominant meaning attributable to the Old Flag, both domestically and internationally, is that it is for the majority of the South African population a symbol that immortalizes the period of a system of racial segregation, racial oppression through apartheid, of a crime against humanity and of South Africa as an international pariah state that dehumanized the black population,” the judge wrote.Gratuitous display, he wrote, “visually communicates a message of the belief in or support of racism, white supremacy and the subjugation of the black population.” The Equality Court’s decision does not create a new law, but rather offers a specific interpretation of the preexisting Equality Act — a request brought by the Nelson Mandela Foundation Trust and backed by the South African Human Rights Commission and Johannesburg Pride.The Mandela Foundation’s motion cites a demonstration in October 2017 in which some protesters displayed the Old Flag, including members of a group called AfriForum, a nonprofit that represents the interests of descendants of white European colonizers in South Africa.AfriForum opposed the Mandela Foundation’s motion, claiming that the Equality Act expressly regulates only “words” and not symbols, and that it does not regulate displays of the Old Flag.But the judge ruled against AfriForum’s argument, writing that it was “racist” and “discriminatory” and that it demonstrated a clear intention to “be hurtful,” to “promote and propagate hatred” and to be “harmful” and “incite harm.” The judge acknowledged that the meaning of the flag was “unfortunately still divisive.” To “those who did not suffer and benefited under the pre-democracy rule,” the Old Flag is a symbol of heritage. If the old South African flag is banned because it's offensive to certain people‚ then the rainbow "gay flag" could be banned too - according to AfriForum. Just because I oppose criminalising prostitution does not mean that I want to go to a prostitute.Because most South Africans didn’t care about it.