NMF heads back to court over Roets’ flag tweet
The Nelson Mandela Foundation have filed an urgent high court application to declare Afriforum Deputy CEO Ernst Roets in contempt of court for his “apartheid flag tweet”.
Roets tweeted an image of the old flag hours after the Equality Court declared the gratuitous display of the flag as constituting hate speech.
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Did I just commit hate speech? pic.twitter.com/mlXsF8OBN1
— Ernst Roets (@ErnstRoets) August 21, 2019
The foundation’s spokesperson Luzuko Koti says the Afriforum leader has displayed the flag in bad faith.
“He has actually gratitiously displayed the flag, against the wisdom of the judgment. For these reasons we think we should take this action on urgent basis”.