by FOR SA | Sep 22, 2017 | Blog |
by Adv. Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of Freedom of Religion South Africa Columnist Jon Qwelane has applied to the Johannesburg High Court (sitting as Equality Court) for leave to appeal against Judge Moshidi’s judgment on 18 August 2017. The judgment declared...
by FOR SA | Sep 12, 2017 | Blog |
by Adv. Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of Freedom of Religion South Africa *NOTE: The article below is not intended as a defence of Lake Restaurant’s policy, but rather to state what our Courts have actually found (and not found) to date in cases like this. Big...
by FOR SA | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Press Release, Spotlight |
PRESS RELEASE September 4th, 2017 For immediate release COGTA cancels hearings on the CRL Report to regulate religion The COGTA Parliamentary Portfolio Committee has announced that it will no longer be meeting on the issue of the the CRL’s Report on the...
by FOR SA | Sep 1, 2017 | Alert, Blog, Regulation of Religion |
This past week we have received two notifications from the Secretary of the COGTA Parliamentary Portfolio Committee advising us that they have again changed the dates for these hearings. The last one – received after close of business yesterday – reads as follows:...
by FOR SA | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog, Education: News & Media, Regulation of Religion, Spotlight |
A Guideline for Public Schools, and Religious Practitioners and Organisations working into Public Schools On 28 June 2017, the Johannesburg High Court delivered judgment in the case of OGOD vs Laerskool Randhart & Others. In terms of the Court order, it is...
by FOR SA | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog, Regulation of Religion |
By Andrew Selley (Founder & CEO, FOR SA) Freedom of Religion has long been considered to be the most important of all human rights. It was birthed from a recognition that whenever the State interferes with religion, the consequences are inevitably negative and...
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