Ernst Roets says he did nothing wrong when he tweeted the apartheid flag hours after it was banned
AfriForum deputy CEO Ernst Roets has denied that he had disobeyed an Equality Court order that the gratuitous display of the old apartheid flag constitutes hate speech.
The Equality Court, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, made the ruling on August 21.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and Human Rights Commission (HRC) took the case to court, asking that the gratuitous display of the flag be stopped. AfriForum and Roets were the respondents in the case.
But just hours after the scathing judgment banning the gratuitous display of the flag, Roets took to Twitter to post a picture of the flag, asking: "Did I just commit hate speech?"
This week, the NMF filed an urgent application to have Roets and AfriForum held in contempt of court.