reply to post by Mcupobob
Well. we have a great constitution (it was even often called the most advanced and liberal in the world), and we should have total freedom of speech
outside direct hate speech.
Yet, we've actually witnessed significant double-standards regarding free speech, and hate speech.
There was never a race war in SA, although there were sporadic ethnic clashes (mainly between African tribes and parties).
There is a concern that a race war may come in future, but ultimately there are 4 million whites and 50 million blacks.
A proportion of those blacks are immigrants and refugees from other African countries.
One concern is that the ruling ANC were Marxist terrorists (who performed a big publicity stunt amongst Western liberals centered on Mandela), and
that they are clamping down slowly but surely on free speech.
Their support for the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is short of gushing.
We already have the dreaded info bill in the pipeline.
There are already threads on some of those issues on ATS, but for me a conflation of religion, politics and censorship is not a good sign.
PS. Right2Know protest in Cape Town against the ANC "Secrecy Bill" (October 2011), including dissent from some of their own stalwarts:
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