South Africa

Hundreds of pastors attend Bloemfontein meeting on church-regulation threat

Hundreds of pastors, church leaders and servants of God from across the Free State and surrounding areas attended an urgent strategic engagement hosted by South African Church Defenders (SACD) in Bloemfontein yesterday. At the meeting SACD leadership “led critical discussion around attempts by the CRL Rights Commission to introduce measures […]

ACDP welcomes sentence handed to Julius Malema

The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has welcomed the sentence handed down to Julius Malema in the KuGompo Magistrates Court in the Eastern Cape. East London Regional Court magistrate Twanet Olivier yesterday sentenced the EFF leader and MP to five years direct imprisonment and fined him R60 000. Malema was […]

Parliamentary committee considers WC religious leaders’ request for investigation of CRL chair

The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Parliamentary Portfolio Committee met virtually yesterday to consider a request by a group of Western Cape religious leaders for the committee to open a formal misconduct meeting against CRL Rights Commission chair Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva. In a letter sent to the COGTA committee on […]