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Following its retirement in 1994, the flag has been controversial within South Africa, with some viewing it as historic and a symbol of Afrikaner heritage, while others view it as a symbol of apartheid and white supremacy.
Since 2019, public display of this flag in South Africa is considered hate speech (for being a potential symbol of apartheid and white supremacy) and therefore prohibited, with exceptions for artistic, academic and journalistic purposes, as well as for museums & places of historical interest.
As a result, it was the national flag during apartheid (1948–1994), and it is also known as the "Apartheid flag". [4][6] It was replaced by the current flag of South Africa in 1994 with the commencement of the country's transitional constitution and the end of apartheid.
The end of the apartheid era was marked by the universal-suffrage democratic elections of April 1994, which resulted in a strong victory for supporters of the African National Congress (ANC). Many whites had feared that the black-green-yellow horizontal tricolour of the ANC, representing black Africans, the land, and mineral wealth, would be ...
South African Flag (Apartheid Era) In 1928, a few years after unionization, South Africa adopted its first national flag, which consisted of a past version of the flag of the Netherlands combined with miniature flags representing the different colonies that came together to form South Africa.
Civil rights organisation AfriForum has been criticised for displaying colours that resemble the apartheid flag at their march against the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act 32 of 2024 (Bela Act ...
Twenty-five years after the apartheid flag was abolished and replaced with the current one, which represents colours symbolising unity, the gratuitous display of the old flag has now been declared to be hate speech. What does this mean?
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has asked the courts to ban "gratuitous displays" of the apartheid-era South African flag. The foundation argues public displays of the flag amounts to "hate...
On Wednesday, the Equality Court ruled that the old flag is "a symbol that immortalizes the period of a system of racial segregation, racial oppression through apartheid, and of South Africa as...
The Equality Court ruled that it’s illegal to display the apartheid flag anywhere in South Africa. Public displays of the flag will constitute hate speech.