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Civil Union Amendment Bill: Pro Forma Submission
By Adv Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of FOR SA Comments have been invited on the Civil Union Amendment Bill, which seeks to force State-employed marriage officers – potentially against their conscience and religious beliefs – to solemnize same-sex marriages. (For...
Comment Invited on Draft Code of Conduct for Religion
By Adv Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of FOR SA The COGTA Parliamentary Portfolio Committee has decided (for now) not to adopt the CRL Rights Commission’s proposed recommendations for the regulation of religion. Instead, COGTA recommended (as unanimously requested...
Land Expropriation and The Religious Community
By Michael Swain, Executive Director of FOR SA Land expropriation is a highly political and emotionally charged issue. Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) is closely monitoring this area since it clearly has the potential to impact on the religious community. ...
CRL Still Set On (State) Regulation Of Religion
By Michael Swain, Executive Director of FOR SA In February this year, the COGTA Parliamentary Portfolio Committee issued its Report on the CRL Rights Commission’s Report on the “Commercialisation” of Religion and Abuse of People’s Belief Systems. In a nutshell, while...
Comment Invited On the “Civil Union Amendment Bill”
By Daniela Ellerbeck, Legal Advisor to FOR SA The right to refuse to do something because of one’s conscience, religion, beliefs or opinion is protected in various legal instruments. Section 6 of the Civil Union Act, 2006 (“the Act”) is one such section - it protects...
Greater Access to Porn, and Less to Religion
By Michael Swain, Executive Director of FOR SA The Films and Publications Amendment Bill (commonly referred to as “the Internet Censorship Bill”) adopted in the National Assembly on 6 March 2018, is a mixed bag. On the positive side, the Bill contains provisions...
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Application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court
*Update (as at 27 November 2017): Subsequent to the filing of the application for leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein, the SCA advised that the application should be referred directly to the Constitutional Court. In the...
read more“Religious Exemption” Clause Included in Revised “Hate Speech” Bill
By Adv Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of FOR SA The revised Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill has been referred to Parliament following approval of the Bill by Cabinet last week Wednesday. The Bill will now go through the normal...
read moreBREAKING NEWS: The Johannesburg High Court (sitting as the Equality Court) has just granted journalist Jon Qwelane leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein. The Court acknowledged that the matter involved “complex and controversial legal principles” - such as the Equality Act’s yardstick to determine hate speech – and that it was in the interests of justice that the uncertainty in the correct and proper interpretation of the "hate speech" clause in the Equality Act, be settled by the SCA. For this reason also, FOR SA welcomes the granting of leave to appeal. #religiousfreedom #FORSA #Qwelane #hatespeech
COMMENTS on the CIVIL UNION AMENDMENT BILL are DUE 28 APRIL! See an article (in relation to a different issue, in 2016) on how best to write submissions to government and Parliament. Trust this is helpful! #FORSA #religiousfreedom
Practical Tips: Writing Submissions to Government & Parliament | FOR SA
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by Adv. Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of FOR SA British Statesman Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." The ...Deadline for comments on the CIVIL UNION AMENDMENT BILL, is 28 April! For a pro forma submission on (objection to) the Bill, see forsa.org.za/civil-union-amendment-bill-pro-forma-submission/ Please LIKE and SHARE! #religiousfreedom #FORSA
Civil Union Amendment Bill: Pro Forma Submission | FOR SA
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By Adv Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of FOR SA Comments have been invited on the Civil Union Amendment Bill, which seeks to force State-employed marriage officers – potentially against their cons...Dr. Reuben van Rensburg states his concern for the state of the Church.
Richard Botha, Commissioner of the CRL speaks on standing up for your rights.
Michael Cassidy speaks on Freedom of Religion in South Africa and the threat being faced.
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