by FOR SA | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog, Regulation of Religion
By Adv Nadene Badenhorst, FOR SA Legal Counsel At a media briefing by the CRL Rights Commission (CRL) on Friday, 30 November, it was announced that a national summit of all religious and church leaders will be held on 13 February 2019. According to a Statement read...
by FOR SA | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog, Regulation of Religion
By Adv Nadene Badenhorst, Legal Counsel of FOR SA *The cases and issues in which FOR SA is / has been involved, are marked with a star (*). POLICIES & BILLS Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill* The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on...
by FOR SA | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Interview, Regulation of Religion
FOR SA’s Executive Director, Michael Swain, and Mrs Rooks Moodley the Director at Eastern Cape NGO Coalition, spoke to Link FM about the CRL Commission’s recommendation to regulate religion through amongst others, licencing religious practioners and places of...
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
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...
