Even Politically Inflammatory Or Downright Offensive Speeches Not Excluded From Constitutional Protection

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12/2018

Even Politically Inflammatory Or Downright Offensive Speeches Not Excluded From Constitutional Protection

The Supreme Court of South Africa has observed that the fact that particular expression may be hurtful of people’s feelings, or wounding, distasteful, politically inflammatory or downright offensive, does not exclude it from protection under the Constitution.
The court said the bounds of constitutional protection are only overstepped when the speech involves propaganda for war; the incitement of imminent violence; or the advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion, and that constitutes incitement to cause harm.

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