New South Africa – New Censors
Despite international warnings, the South African Parliament has passed new legislation that stifles the free
expression of ideas, under the pretext of stamping out ‘hate speech’. This censorship promises to be as absurd
and as draconian as any we knew under the old regime.
It is all too familiar because we have been here before. With criminal penalties being imposed on broad and ill-defined categories of expression, speaking or writing the ‘wrong words’ could land you in jail for years.