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On a busy street in Tawa, New Zealand, the Biltong and Wors Shop’s front window is dominated by an old South African flag.

More than three months after outrage erupted over the “apartheid symbol”, the owner has still not removed the large flag.

Angry residents have now started an online petition to “help persuade the owners to do the right thing”.

The petition was started on Monday following Friday’s terror attack which claimed 50 lives in two mosques in Christchurch.

“In light of recent events, it is even more important to call out and challenge racism and white supremacy,” New Zealand lawyer Richard Stephen said.

Stephen launched the petition because the “flag has become a symbol of the brutal apartheid regime, which oppressed millions”.

Old SA flag a symbol of white supremacy, says Nelson Mandela Foundation ahead of court case

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The Nelson Mandela Foundation announced on Monday that its case regarding the old South African flag for hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment would be heard in the Equity Court in April.

The case will be heard during the 29th and 30th of April. This comes after the foundation approached the court last March with the request to declare the use and exhibition of the old South African flag for hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment based on race.

In addition, it said during a statement that it was time to admit that the old South African flag is a symbol of a crime against humanity and that the exhibition is humiliating black South Africans and promoting crime.

The statement supports the following: “It is important that the Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Promotion Act be used as a tool to discourage such behavior.”

According to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the civil rights organization, AfriForu
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