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Vaccine passports or mandatory vaccines would be discriminatory and would amount to the “dompass” of the apartheid era, said ACDP president Rev Kenneth Meshoe in a press statement released this week. He was responding to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s adress to the nation last Sunday night in which he spoke of […]
Parties involved in a High Court application by the ACDP against the government’s rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations to children between the ages of 12 and 17 have agreed to timelines for filing papers, says ACDP national executive committee member and attorney Bongani Luthuli in a media statement. He says the […]
The Gauteng High Court today granted a request by the ACDP for a postponement in the hearing of its urgent application for an order to stop the rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations to children between the ages of 12 and 17, ACDP national executive committee member and attorney Bongani Luthuli said […]
Originally published in Daily Maverick The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and a group of community organisations have filed papers at the Pretoria High Court to stop the roll-out of the one dose of the Pfizer vaccine to children between the ages of 12 and 17 According to papers before […]
With an increasing push both globally and locally for the introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccines various groups in South Africa are taking steps to oppose what they see as an onslaught against vital constitutional freedoms — and are calling on Christians to make their voices heard. In Johannesburg today the […]
ACDP MP Steve Swart says it is irrational that a church that can seat a thousand people should be restricted to 50 people in terms of current lockdown regulations. Addressing the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs last week he said there is growing frustration in the […]
“A very dangerous situation is developing in neighbouring Mozambique, yet our government has said and done very little to bring peace to the area, or to prepare for a possible influx of refugees should the situation worsen,” said ACDP president Rev Kenneth Meshoe in Parliament yesterday. Speaking in the budget […]
The ACDP staged a picket outside the Western Cape provincial legislature on Monday to protest against the draft policy on gender identity and sexual orientation for public schools in the Western Cape which it sees as harmful to children and a threat to the constitutional rights of parents, teachers and […]
A settlement agreement that became an order of the Pretoria High Court yesterday, allowing wider access to Ivermectin in the treatment of Covid-19, is a victory for freedom of doctors and the public, says ACDP MP Steve Swart. The settlement between the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), the ACDP, Afriforum […]
Mkhize hints SA may move to level 1 in a few days The ACDP once again calls on the government to lift the lockdown in its entirety and to implement economic growth plans to boost the ailing economy, says ACDP MP Steve Swart in a media statement released yesterday. He […]