South Africa’s Equality Court severely restricted the display of the country’s old apartheid-era flag after ruling Wednesday that it constitutes hate speech and racial discrimination.

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.

A South African court is restricting gratuitous displays of the country's old apartheid-era flag, calling the banner "a vivid symbol of white supremacy and black disenfranchisement and suppression." ...

South Africa adopted its current flag at the time of those first all-race elections. For some South Africans, the apartheid-era flag has similar connotations to the swastika flag of Nazi Germany.

South Africans who fly the nation's apartheid-era flag are promoting hate and discrimination and risk fines and other punishment, South Africa's Equality Court ruled Wednesday.

South African High Commissioner Sibusiso Ndebele said he raised concerns with the council after seeing a report online that referred to "some sort of honouring of the apartheid flag" in the town.

But in South Africa, the flag is mainly celebrated by those with “misdirected anger,” said Gwede Mantashe, secretary general of the African National Congress, the ruling party of the post ...

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 ...

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