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Today is Tuesday, August 1st, A.D. 2023. This is The Africa Review in Five, written by Tim Cantrell and presented by Yamikani Katunga.
Hate Speech vs. Free Speech in South Africa
Last Saturday in Johannesburg, in the massive FNB stadium in Soweto, Julius Malema (leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters political party) stood before a stadium of tens of thousands and gave us yet another perfectly blatant example of genuine hate speech: https://twitter.com/i/status/1685542774601371648 If shouting, “Kill the Boer (white Afrikaners), kill the farmer!” (while making gun sounds and hand-gun motions) is not hate speech, what is?2 If “explicit words meant to incite violence”3 still has anything to do with hate speech, surely Malema should’ve been behind bars long ago.
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