The EFF is calling for the removal of Die Stem from the national anthem following the Equality Court judgment declaring the gratuitous display of the old apartheid flag as hate speech.
The party welcomed the court ruling handed down on Wednesday by Judge Phineas Mojapelo.
Mojapelo said the display of the apartheid flag does harm and should be considered hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment.
The application was brought by the Nelson Mandela Foundation which asked the court to declare the display of this flag as illegal and impose sanctions on those who display it freely in public.
The EFF said the ruling was a milestone and victory and that the apartheid flag and the Die Stem were part of the same symbol of white supremacy and as such, the anthem should be changed to exclude Die Stem.
“It must be a common cause that the apartheid national anthem must follow after its flag. The apartheid flag and its anthem belong to t
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