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.
The FMF has entered the fray as a friend of the court in the matter, in an effort to stand up for equality before the law.
The Rule of Law Project has approached the SCA as a friend of the court to guide precedent for all courts in the direction of equal application of hate speech law and non-racialism in any court cases.
