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Julius Malema’s ‘dead white man’ tweet is hate speech, says SAHRC

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Julius Malema’s comments on Twitter will be referred to the equality court and the SAHRC will also investigate the EFF’s ban on media organisations amaBhungane and the Daily Maverick from their events.

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Tuesday condemned recent comments attributed to EFF leader Julius Malema — at least at first sight — as amounting to hate speech.

They were referring to a video shared on his Twitter feed in which he paid tribute to the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.

The tweet, published on September 14 with the words “Rest in power #GUSHUNGO” featured a video with quotes by Mugabe. “The only white man you can trust is a dead white man,” read one of the quotes alongside a picture of Mugabe.

Malema later shared a message, accompanied by the words “Stratcom #GUSHUNGO”, from Twitter, saying it had “investigated the reported content and could not identify any vio
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AfriForum’s Ernst Roets not in contempt of court over apartheid flag tweet – Roets said he was posing an academic question with his tweet

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Johannesburg – The Equality Court on Tuesday ruled that AfriForum deputy chief executive Ernst Roets was not in contempt of court when he tweeted an image of the offensive apartheid flag.

Roets posted the image on Twitter soon after the Equality Court, sitting at the South Gauteng High Court, declared that the gratuitous display of the apartheid flag amounts to hate speech.

Judge Phineas Mojapelo said displaying the old flag constituted hate speech and discrimination based on race. He added that the apartheid-era flag be allowed for academic, artistic and journalistic use only if there was a need and permission to do so.

Roets’ offensive post prompted the Nelson Mandela Foundation to file bring an urgent application to the court.

However, Roets dismissed suggestions that he disrespected the judgment. Instead he said the court ruled the flag could be used for artistic, journalistic and academic purposes.

Roets said he wa
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Part 2:- Malema can never be the President of this country! Not now, not in 2019 not ever”, well Juju this coming from one of your own kind

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A black man has called out Julius Malema, stating that he doesn’t have the moral qualification and administrative acumen to be the president of South Africa.

This is as the heat is building up for the may 2019 election keeps going up..there have been mixed feelings from lots of South Africans on who or which party to vote for.

All the political parties are asking the electorates to vote for them with various promises of doing better than the ANC.

Malema who took to his Twitter handle earlier yesterday to comment on an issue concerning the alleged plot to remove the EFF from the ballot paper said that “no one can do that.”

“Let me tell you now; no one will remove the @EFFSouthAfrica from the ballot paper, stop entertaining hallucinations. If your handler Pravin couldn’t think about it, who are you #KarimaBrown. Sies” He tweeted

Barely a few hours after the tweets, lots of comments started pouring in with most of them
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