“This in my view is precisely why the order does not contain a directive prohibiting the display of the flag. There is no order ad factum praesdandum,” he said.
The finding stems from a picture of the apartheid flag which Roets tweeted last month – just hours after the same court declared that the gratuitous display of the flag was hate speech. In the hate speech judgment, Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo declared that the “gratuitous display” of the flag constituted hate speech in terms of Section 10 of the Equality Act, unfair discrimination in terms of Section 7 of the act, and harassment in terms of Section 11 of the act.Roets’ tweet caused outrage on the social media platform and prompted the Nelson Mandela Foundation to take him to court for contempt of court.
He also argued that he and AfriForum could not be held in contempt of court because the hate speech order was not granted against them specifically. In addition, he submitted that his tweets fell under the proviso that the display of the flag must be confined to genuine artistic, academic or journalistic expression in the public interest, in terms of Section 2 of the Equality Act.
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