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Court Limits Display Of South Africa's Old Apartheid Flag, Citing Hateful Legacy

Saying the flag immortalizes an era of racial segregation, the Equality Court rules that it is "a vivid symbol of white supremacy and black disenfranchisement and suppression."

A South African court is restricting gratuitous displays of the country's old apartheid-era flag, calling the banner "a vivid symbol of white supremacy and black disenfranchisement and suppression."

The flag was the official standard of South Africa from 1928 until the end of apartheid in

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