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EXPLAINER: What exactly is hate speech and does it apply to old SA flag?

30 April 2019 - 05:56 By ernest mabuza
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EFF supporters burn the old South African flag near the Paul Kruger statue at Church Square on April 11 2015 in Pretoria.
EFF supporters burn the old South African flag near the Paul Kruger statue at Church Square on April 11 2015 in Pretoria.
Image: Gallo Images/Foto24/Theana Breugem

Should the gratuitous display of the old apartheid-era flag be considered hate speech?

This is the question South Gauteng High Court deputy judge president Phineas Mojapelo grappled with on Monday as he heard an application by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the SA Human Rights Commission.

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