Roets: NMF was on a ‘witch hunt’
Updated | By Sinethemba Madolo
AfriForum deputy CEO Ernst Roets believes the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s contempt of court case against him was nothing less than a witch hunt.
On Tuesday the Equality Court dismissed the charges against Roets for posting an image of the old South African flag on social media.
Roets posted the image on Twitter soon after the Equality Court declared the gratuitous display of the apartheid flag as hate speech.
The post prompted the Nelson Mandela Foundation to file charges against Roets and the AfriForum.
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Roets dismissed suggestions that he disrespected the judgment, saying that the court allowed for the flag to be used for artistic, journalistic and academic purposes.
Roets says he always expected the court to rule in his favour.
"We expected the judgment, however, we are still grateful for it. This proves to us what we've been saying since the beginning that this seems to be a witch hunt by the Nelson Mandela Foundation against people who express themselves in ways in which they do not agree.
"There was not a court order banning people or saying that if you display the flag then you are in contempt of the court."
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