South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]Gateway News reporter JOHANITA JORDAAN attended the Real Men March in Cape Town on Saturday. She reports on the day’s events.[/notice] On Saturday morning 16 March 2013 at 10:00 a crowd of men gathered in the parking area across from the Cape Peninsula Uniersity to take a united stand in […]
Although I expected a lot more Christian men to turn up for the ‘Real Men March Against Rape & Violence of Women & Children’ on 16 March in CT, the event was a resounding success. More than a thousand men (and some women) marched to Parliament – worshipping God through […]
Major Christian church groups have launched a boycott of TopTV which wants to broadcast three pornographic television channels, says Family Policy Institute Director Errol Naidoo. Announcing the boycott on Saturday at a march outside Parliament in Cape Town against rape and violence against women and children, Naidoo said the church […]
TopTV says it now is only seeking to broadcast pornography during the so-called ‘watershed period’ from 20:00 to 5:00. On Digital Media (ODM) which owns TopTV stated its case to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) in Johannesburg today. Last year Icasa turned down an application by the […]
Originally published in Charisma News Pornography and sexual promiscuity are destroying a generation of young people in England according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) which reports that from 2009 to 2012 more than 5 000 sexual assaults in England involved a child perpetrator […]
A public hearing into TopTV’s latest application to launch three 24 hours pornographic television channels will be held in Johannesburg on Thursday, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) says in a notice released today. Organisations that will present submissions at the hearing at Icasa’s offices in Sandton are […]
[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] Whilst reflecting on the past two weeks’ media coverage of tragic events playing out in South Africa, […]
[notice]Broadcasters like e.tv and Top TV believe it is their constitutional right to profit from the lucrative pornography industry. And adult porn consumers say it is their human right to choose what they want to view in private: nobody is getting hurt and those who don’t want to watch can […]
Recent scientific evidence about the brain and its development provide compelling grounds for turning down TopTV’s application to broadcast pornography in South Africa, says Doctors For Life (DFL). DFL’s scientific objections to porn on television are spelled out in a written submission to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa […]
The media reports that Top TV’s second application to launch three 24-hour porn channels in SA has elicited a record response from the public. Thank you for making your voice heard! One of the channels Top TV plans to introduce to SA is Playboy. And despite Top TV’s assurances that children […]