The FMF Rule of Law Project was featured in De Rebus on its amicus curiae brief in favour of equal treatment before the law.
A major problem for such conservatives is freer markets produce the very things they want to stamp out. They demand social conformity over diversity but markets help create diversity.
What is a ‘conspiracy’? Why have we made it a dirty word? At its core, it denotes a group of people plotting something they didn’t necessarily tell you about.
When it comes to hate speech, complexity is ever present.
It seems to me that the courts are closing off all legal avenues to peacefully addressing the phenomenon of politicians inciting their followers to commit grave injustices.
The FMF Rule of Law Project was featured in Volksblad on the Julius Malema hate speech case.
It seems clear that government has over the years sought to enable itself – whether it exercises this power or not – to silence civil dissent against its ideology and policy agenda. This cannot compute in a democratic constitutional state.
Taken together, these laws and bills represent an almost comprehensive package that existentially threatens the continued free and open nature of South Africa’s public discourse.
These measures, taken in isolation, would do harm to constitutional rights and freedoms, but taken together threaten the very rules of South Africa’s democratic game.
Freedom is something – perhaps the only thing – worth using coercive violence for, but never against.
