Display of old SA flag is 'nostalgia for apartheid', Ngcukaitobi tells court

JOHANNESBURG -

The Supreme Court of Appeal has been hearing a bid from AfriForum to overturn an Equality Court ruling declaring displays of the flag to be hate speech. The ruling was made in 2019, on the back of a case brought by the foundation and by the South African Human Rights Commission after the flag was displayed at a protest against farm murders.AfriForum argues that context is key in that the old South African flag could symbolise apartheid, but those wishing to display it could also be "trading" on its dominant meaning.

But advocate Thembeka Ngcukaitobi for the Nelson Mandela Foundation said the only contemporary meaning to the old South African flag was “a yearning for the return of apartheid”.But worse, he said, it also represents what has been declared by the United Nations as a crime against humanity, which makes the flag not just an affront to the dignity of Africans, but also to people of all races who support humanity.

Ngcukaitobi added that anyone who continues to display it today was endorsing a crime against humanity, an attack on black dignity and the superiority of whiteness.

ANC please fix the country and stop moaning about the old SA flag.

Oh f$ckoff it’s a flag!

The people of South Africa when are looking the new flag under the cANCer is like looking into hells gates….

The foundation was just kidding.

No, not apartheid, but the fact that all systems and organisations functioned and were in the green, law and order existed; alas no more. The old flag won't bring it back either though.

The new SA Flag is no different it also represents Apartheid.. BBBEE ...Corruption....Theft...Mismanagent....Cadre Deployment ....Crime....Rape....Murder ...

The priority now should be to get rid of the ANC. Once that is done and hopefully replaced by a responsible administration - then it would time to crush, I mean obliterate the apartheid flag and many other symbols

So do the masters of colonialism countries flags too, right?

We should be focusing on eskom, high food and fuel prices not flags.

In a proper well run state this doesn't deserve time in a court of law it's waiste of time ... Young girls are being abducted and raped out there le busy Ka diflaga aee suka

How things r by ANC in this country make me not mind apartheid

What did they say about the looting and corruption within the ANC? DOLOLO

We don't need to hear from that stupid foundation thing. Malema will tell us what to do with Afriforum

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