The \u201cold South Africa\u201d is still alive and well on the Cape Flats.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s old \u201coranje, blanje, blou\u201d flag was spotted fluttering over a Coloured [mixed race] residence in Fifth Road, Heathfield.<\/p>\n
But neighbours say the flag is an insult to those who fought for freedom, and reminds them of the brutal days of apartheid.<\/p>\n
They say the flag has been hoisted since October, and requests for it to be taken down have been ignored.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis behaviour, in my opinion, indicates a total disrespect to the law and an insult to others,\u201d said resident Richard Talliard.<\/p>\n
But Mishkah Jappie, 36, says her husband Thaabied, 40, has \u201cvery good reasons\u201d why he hung the flag on their roof.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe nothing has changed from the apartheid days,\u201d said the mom of six.<\/p>\n
Thaabied was out on the road, looking for work when the Daily Voice visited. He lost his job as a paramedic in 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have water or electricity here and nothing seems to be better in our lives,\u201d added Mishkah.<\/p>\n
She said Thaabied got the flag from his stepfather, who served in the army during apartheid.<\/p>\n
Her husband has become bitter because doors are still being slammed in his face more than 20 years after democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am proud to say Nelson Mandela has opened up the pathway for us to prosper equally. But a lot of people are struggling while a few are getting richer everyday,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
She said neighbours have asked them to remove the weathered and faded flag, but they refused.<\/p>\n
The flag has become her family\u2019s own symbol of oppression in the new South Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe neighbours say it\u2019s hurting them to see the flag, but there are still features of the old order here,\u201d said Mishkah.<\/p>\n
A neighbour who did not want to be identified said: \u201cMany people died because of that flag, it opens up old wounds for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The South African Human Rights Commission said it would look into the matter.<\/p>\n
Spokesman Isaac Mangena says: \u201cSouth Africa has a flag that represents a rainbow nation. People must desist from displaying anything that would remind others of their sad past.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: Daily Voice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The \u201cold South Africa\u201d is still alive and well on the Cape Flats. The country\u2019s old \u201coranje, blanje, blou\u201d flag was spotted fluttering over a Coloured [mixed race] residence in Fifth Road, Heathfield. But neighbours say the flag is an insult to those who fought for freedom, and reminds them of the brutal days of … Continue reading “Flying the old flag”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[164,1365,818,201,11850,2886,2888],"class_list":["post-19215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-apartheid","tag-cape-flats","tag-cape-town","tag-human-rights","tag-mixed-race","tag-old-flag","tag-sahrc"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}