AfriForum's lawyer Mark Oppenheimer said that hateful symbols should be allowed in public spaces because they educate people on what is right and wrong.
JOHANNESBURG – Lobby group AfriForum says it would be unconstitutional for the Equality Court to ban the old apartheid flag.
AfriForum is opposing an application brought by the Nelson Mandela Foundation seeking to ban the flag under the Equality Act. The Nelson Mandela Foundation wanted the flag to be declared as hate speech due to its association with apartheid.“At no point is there a denial of the pain. I understand that it would, as a gay person, be painful to see an old South African flag to say that ‘that was the regime which had homophobic laws and marginalised me’.
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