asked the court to rule that displays of the old flag constitute hate speech and discrimination based on race. Mandela, South Africa’s first black president after decades of white-minority rule ...

South Africa ... the old flag conjures painful memories for many South Africans. Hatang, who was born in 1975, and like about 80 percent of South Africans, is black, told VOA about his earliest ...

The fate of the orange, white and blue flag has been a highly charged issue in South Africa, particularly for the country's Black majority, many of whom view it as an overt symbol of the ...

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." ...

Mojapelo did not mince words in addressing the Old Flag’s discriminatory symbolism under apartheid South Africa, in which black Africans and other people of color were legally segregated from ...

“The old South African flag symbolizes brute anti-black racism, and its longer colonial history from which it flows,” he said. “To that extent, the antiquated and divisive symbolism of the ...

If there is one thing that could split the country, it is South Africa ... flag was a yearning for the return of apartheid. Ngcukaitobi said the flag continued to represent white domination over ...

asked the court to rule that displays of the old flag constitute hate speech and discrimination based on race. Mandela, South Africa's first black president after decades of white-minority rule ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court on Wednesday ruled that displaying the country's apartheid-era flag in public constituted hate speech that discriminated against black people and ...