Kriel said the charges against him were withdrawn unconditionally after he submitted a representation to the state prosecutor a week ago.
Tshwane metro police charged Kriel after he put up posters with the message Mugabe, go home! on lampposts near the Union Buildings in Pretoria, shortly before the inauguration in May.
In his representation to the state prosecutor, Kriel alleged the prosecution was politically motivated. He also alleged that his constitutional right to freedom of speech had been unfairly curtailed and that AfriForum had followed all legal avenues to try to stop Mugabes visit to South Africa.
Kriel said Mugabe had no place visiting the country. If anybody deserves to be prosecuted, it is Mugabe, he said.
AfriForums poster campaign was a protest against the fact that Mugabe had been invited to the inauguration while the Dalai Lama had been denied a visa to visit South Africa just a short while before.
The fact that the red carpet was rolled out for Mugabe in South Africa, immediately after 18 activists had been arrested in Zimbabwe, sent a negative message to the world regarding governments stance on human rights, Kriel said.
The Times (SA)