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ANC leaders Henrietta Maseko-Jele and Deputy Minister of Justice John Jeffrey threatened to use the Hate Speech Bill to silence preachers’ controversial speech in Tuesday’s hate speech debate in Parliament. This provides evidence of the ill intent of the bill, which we have received legal advice will prove useful in […]
By Philip Rosenthal — ChristianView Network On Tuesday morning the ruling party voted for each of the seven worst possible options for the Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Bill- which threatens to shut down controversial free speech like mainland China did to Hong Kong. At the previous meeting, the Department […]
A call to prayer for SA by Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network This holiday season, please set aside some time to pray for South Africa. In 2023, we will be fighting back an attempt at moral and political woke revolution. This is as big a change as the 1994 transition. […]
ChristianView Network yesterday [see YouTube clip at bottom of page] asked the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education to fix problems in the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill that would grab power away from parents. The bill has drawn more public comment than any law since the Constitution. Parents’ backlash […]
Yesterday (November 2) Hugh Wetmore, 85, founder of the Evangelical Fellowship of South Africa (EFSA), the predecessor of the Evangelical Alliance (TEASA) and the Evangelical Seminary of South Africa (ESSA), went to heaven. Hugh grew up in Cape Town where he enjoyed mountain hiking and caving at Kalk Bay. On […]
TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read) Summary This week, we got good news, but a new concern. Good news that Parliament has listened to our concerns about the Anti-Money Laundering bill and plans to take out the requirement for all non-profits to register, that would have made most South African non-profits […]
On Tuesday morning the parliamentary committee on finance considered submissions from ChristianView Network and other organisations on an over-stringent anti-money laundering bill that threatens to financially and administratively strangle most of South Africa’s non-profits, who are unlikely to be able to comply. The good news is that this morning the […]
Update on the Hate Speech Bill by Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network Yesterday, the Department of Justice updated Parliament on their responses to submissions for the Hate Speech Bill. They are proposing up to five years jail sentence for what they call “hate speech”. Currently, the former leader of the […]
Business people sometimes ask me whether we ever win — since we are always defending against new threats? It can be depressing, when the government introduces one anti-family, anti-life, anti-business policy after another — as soon as we have fought off one, then there is another one. So are we […]
Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network sounds the alarm about a Constitutional Court judgment which he says threatens the constitutional freedoms of South African citzens The July 30 judgment by Judge Majiedt of the Constitutional Court found journalist Jon Qwelane guilty of hate speech for an article in 2008 calling for […]