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Last week, the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs descended into Gqeberha for public hearings on the Marriage Bill [B43—2023]. The public participation process is a constitutional mandate, as determined by Section 59 of the Constitution, which compels Parliament to ensure public participation in its processes, including lawmaking. According to Parliament’s […]
Philip Rosenthal, director of ChristianView Network has called on Christians to prioritise participating in public consultations on the controversial Marriage Bill, which are due to start on November 18 and 19 in Gauteng – and at dates yet to be announced in other provinces. (See schedule below with updated info […]
The ACDP is hosting protests in Cape Town and Pretoria on Friday against the controversial Single Marriage Bill that aims to consolidate all existing marriage laws and which does not retain the words “husband” and wife”. In Cape Town, they invite citizens to join their picket outside Parliament (near the […]
In a blog post on the Freedom of Religion South Africa website, executive director Michael Swain Introduction: FOR SA is aware that the Marriage Bill (which is currently open for comment until 31 August 2023) is garnering much interest, specifically from faith communities. We recognise that faith communities may have concerns […]
Family Policy Institute director Errol Naidoo writes that the Department of Home Affairs’ gender-neutral Marriage Bill undermines the bedrock institution of marriage and is detrimental to society I participated in a virtual stakeholder engagement workshop on the draft “Marriage Bill” on August 17 – hosted by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). […]
Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) has called on Christians not to miss the deadline to comment on the recently-published Marriage Bill by Thursday August 31. FOR FURTHER OPINION ON THE MARRIAGE BILL SEE:The death of marriage in SA: a world first — Errol NaidooFOR SA statement on the […]