[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, […]
Tag: pornography
The deadly truth about porn
[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 […]
Top TV porn plans opposed on scientific grounds
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 […]
Get your voice out there!
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 […]
ICASA clarifies procedure for commenting on TOP TV porn plans
Deadline extended to Monday, January 21 People have been submitting written comments about TopTV’s latest porn channel plans but they have not been following the correct procedure, says the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) in a media release published today. The correct procedure is spelled out in the […]
Top TV’s porn social suicide plan must be stopped!
Arlene and I and the team at Family Policy Institute wish you and your family God’s very best for the New Year. We pray you will experience His presence, guidance and provision abundantly this year. Arlene and I just returned from Johannesburg where I preached for Pastors’ Theo and Bev Wolmarans […]
Top TV looks to porn for rescue — faces possible boycott
Few days left for public to comment TopTV is at it again: attempting to launch porn channels a year after its first bid failed. And Christian family values organisation, Family Policy Institute (FPI) has called on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to deny TopTV’s latest application, saying […]
Christian opponents of Gaga tour glad they spoke out
Christian Groups that have opposed Lady Gaga’s South African tour are glad that they have taken a stand even though the controversial pop megastar is on track to perform at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Friday and at the Cape Town Stadium on Monday. “At least we have made […]
SA children need your prayers and action
The “Watchmen on the Wall” programme addressing the topic of pornography on TV and the internet will be broadcast on TBN Africa – DStv channel 341 – this evening (Tuesday, November 20, at 7pm. I speak to Minister of Communications, Dina Pule and Film and Publications Board CEO, Yoliswa Makhasi […]
Salvation comes from the Lord: Straight talk on prayer
[notice]A fortnightly column by Elfrieda Fleischman, Concerned Young People in SA (CYPSA). [/notice] Salvation comes from the Lord Salvation comes from the Lord as seen in the following testimony of Kagiso. -Testimony of Kagiso – True deliverance “I greet you in the name of Jesus! I used to watch porn […]