South Africans are responding in numbers to calls from the religious community and civil society to take action against a serious threat to religious freedom and freedom of opinion by commenting on the controversial PEPUDA Amendment Bill So much so that last Friday the Department of Justice email address designated […]
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Chief Justice ‘did nothing wrong’, says Meshoe at picket outside ConCourt
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng did nothing wrong from a biblical, constitutional or political point of view when he spoke about Israel during a webinar last June, said ACDP president Rev Kenneth Meshoe today. “That is why we are convinced he is going to win his appeal,” he said in a […]
Mogoeng says God gave him ‘rock solid’ grounds for appeal
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said last night that even before he had finished reading through a Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) finding against him regarding remarks he made in a webinar last June, God gave him “rock solid” grounds for appeal. At first he was shocked by God seemingly giving him […]
WATCH: FOR SA highlights potential threat to rights of religious marriage officers
By Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, legal counsel for Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) was tasked by the Minister of Home Affairs with investigating the possibility of a single marriage statute, regulating all the different kinds of marriages in South Africa. The SALRC has now released a discussion […]
Messages of support from Christian community handed to Office of Chief Justice
A petition started in July last year calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to support Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s right to express his Christian views on Israel has enjoyed a renewed surge of public support over the past week as South African Christians have responded to attempts to muzzle the nation’s […]
Call on Church to pray, fast for chief justice
The Healing of the Nation of Africa campaign is calling on the Church to pray and fast for Chief Justice Mogoeng for three days. The call follows a report by Apostle Linda Gobodo that she received a word from the Lord on Sunday, that the The Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) […]
JCC sanction on Mogoeng may be disproportionately harsh, says FOR SA
The sanction imposed by the Judicial Conduct Committee on Chief Justice Mogoeng for contravening the Judicial Code of Conduct by becoming involved in political controversy may be disproportionately harsh, says Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA). The JCC has given Mogoeng 10 days to withdraw and apologise for comments […]
Chief Justice Mogoeng ordered to retract pro-Israel comments
Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has been ordered to apologise for, and retract, pro-Israel comments he made during a webinar in June last year. The Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) found Mogoeng guilty and ordered him to apologise unconditionally for becoming involved in political controversy through his remarks in the online seminar […]
WATCH: FOR SA explains need for pursuing religious gathering case against government
While government has eased restrictions on religious gatherings there remain in-principle reasons for pursuing a court case that was instituted against the state in January, says Advocate Nadene Badenhorst legal counsel to Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA). In a video [see at bottom of the page] response to […]
Dutch Reformed Church moderator apologises to pastor who was wrongfully harassed by SAHRC
The moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) Rev Nelis Janse van Rensburg today apologised for not doing more to defend the character of a Port Elizabeth DRC pastor, Dr Chris van Wyk, who faced trumped-up charges of unfair discrimination for more than a year. In a statement released yesterday, […]