PRESS RELEASE – FOR SA Supports SARS Probe
PRESS RELEASE: 9 February 2018 For immediate distribution SUPPORT FOR SARS PROBE INTO FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES IN THE RELIGIOUS SECTOR Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) supports the recent decision by SARS to conduct a probe into some instances of financial...
PRESS RELEASE – FOR SA Appeals “Spanking Judgement”
PRESS RELEASE :10 November 2017 For immediate distribution FOR SA APPEALS “SPANKING JUDGMENT” On Thursday, 9 November 2017, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) filed an application for leave to appeal against the recent judgment by the Johannesburg High Court...
MEDIA RELEASE: Church Appeals SAHRC’s Report on Spanking in the Home
Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) On Wednesday 30 March, Joshua Generation Church delivered its appeal against the findings and recommendations of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in ‘the spanking...
MEDIA RELEASE: ACDP MP says ban on spanking is a bad idea
African Christian Democratic Party 27 January 2016 ACDP Parliament Media Statement Cheryllyn Dudley, MP & Whip ACDP says attempts to equate abuse and violence with reasonable chastisement or a spanking are disingenuous criminalising spanking does not achieve...
MEDIA RELEASE: Baptist Union SA says proposed ban on spanking is outrageous!
In Brief Holy Scripture has clear instruction on the discipline of children. This instruction includes spanking. It is outrageous to propose banning spanking as administered by loving Christian parents committed to the best interests and welfare of their children....
MEDIA RELEASE: Church Forced To Appeal SAHRC’s “Censorship Of Belief”
Following the South African Human Rights Commission’s finding against them on Friday, 22 January, Joshua Generation Church in Cape Town has said that they have no choice but to appeal the SAHRC’s findings and recommendations which they regard as an “unconstitutional...
MEDIA RELEASE: State Telling SA Parents How to Raise Their Children
Parents who lovingly spank their children as a means of correcting them, are acting against the Constitution and must be stopped. So says the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in a controversial Report issued on Friday, 22 January.