Also see: CRL launching controversial Section 22 committee at by-invitation-only event
The South African Church Defenders (SACD) — a movement on a mission to unite Christians in defending religious freedom — will lead a national Christian march to the Union Buildings, Pretoria on Wednesday October 8 to “oppose attempts at unconstitutional state control of the Church”.
“In recent years, proposals and public comments by the CRL Rights Commission, particularly under the leadership of its Chairperson, Ms Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva, have raised deep concern among Christian communities,” says the SACD in a press statement released in September.
You are invited to join next Wednesday’s march by meeting at the Old Putco Bus Depot in Marabastad, Pretoria at 9am.
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In an interview yesterday, Rector Ngobeni, a SACD spokesman, said that on Wednesday they will present a memorandum addressed to President Cyril Ramaphosa to a representative of his office. He said they want to tell the president, who appointed Mkhwanazi-Xaluva to chair the Chapter 9 Institution which is supposed to protect the rights of religious and cultural communities “that he is not doing his job” by allowing her to “go against one of the fundamental bills of the Constitution which is to promote the freedom of religion”.
He said they want to ask Ramaphosa if “this is the ANC government’s way to censor the Church”. Noting South Africa’s membership of the BRICS alliance, which includes nations like Russia, China and Iran which impose harsh measures against Christians, he asked whether “South Africa is being influenced by those countries to the point of neglecting their own Constitution”.
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Ngobeni said the SACD is also considering taking the CRL to court to demand minutes of all meetings relating to its founding of a Section 22 Committee to advance its agenda of regulating the Church.
He said that the SACD, which was launched in Gauteng at the start of the year is gaining momentum nationally. As part of an ongoing rollout campaign they recently held meetings in the Northern Cape, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. They had “full houses” at all of the meetings, he said.
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