Kohler Barnard's Facebook post 'hate speech' - court papers
26 August 2016
Cape Town - The ANC has taken DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard to the Equality Court, saying a Facebook post she shared praising apartheid leader PW Botha constituted hate speech.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe filed papers to the Western Cape High Court on Thursday, on behalf of the ruling party.
The party said Kohler Barnard's act of sharing the post was racist.
“In terms of the Equality Act, Ms Kohler Barnard's post unfairly discriminates against Africans, coloureds and Indians on the grounds of race,” the papers read.