South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Channel 24 TopTV has sold advertising space to website AshleyMadison.com, a dating service aimed at people already in relationships or marriages who are looking to have affairs. The embattled pay-TV service, which recently underwent business rescue, is the only South African broadcaster airing an advertisement for the […]
Public must now go to extraordinary lengths to act against sexually explicit magazines By Africa Christian Action Network Ordinary citizens have been put ‘on the back foot’ yet again in the recent Constitutional Court Ruling (28 September) on Section 16 of the Film and Publications Act dealing with sexually explicit […]
Online petition campaign launched A grassroots youth movement, Concerned Young People of South Africa (CYPSA) has launched a petition campaign opposing the planned Lady Gaga concert tour in November and December. The main aim of the petition is to make the Film and Publications Control Board of SA aware of […]
News that Lady Gaga plans to perform in South Africa in November and December has sparked a Facebook campaign by South African Christians opposed to the tour. A Facebook group called Christians Against Lady Gaga & Beyonce’s SA Tour has attracted more than 2 300 members. According to media reports […]
Internet discount coupon company, Groupon South Africa is re-evaluating its policy on “adult content”, says head of sales Gary Burrows. Meanwhile the company is not accepting new “adult-content merchants”, nor looking to develop that area of its business, he says in a statement released in response to questions from Gateway […]
While Groupon in the United States has reportedly stopped promoting pornographic campaigns, it appears that Groupon South Africa is promoting Playboy South Africa magazine. The Groupon about-turn in America follows an anti-porn consumer action campaign by Christian-based organisation, Morality In Media, which resulted in more than 20 000 people cancelling […]
Originally published in Charisma News Groupon appears to be bowing to the anti-porn pressure. After a Christian boycott led by Morality in Media, the online coupon giant has finally stopped promoting companies that deal in pornography. Morality in Media launched the protest after it discovered Groupon was merchandising torture pornographer […]
Originally published in Christian Post Apologist and author Josh McDowell launched Just1ClickAway.org, a new website to raise awareness about online pornography which he says is a problem big enough to cause the downfall of the church. “The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; […]
e.tv complies with advertising code regulations and takes internationally accepted measures to ensure that children are protected from harmful content, says e.tv channel head, Monde Twala. He says this in an email sent today in response to questions asked by Gateway News following yesterday’s Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa […]
An increase in complaints about sms porn commercials on e.tv has prompted the South African advertising regulator to advise the public how to make “meaningful” complaints. The Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) says that in terms of its mandate it can only react to public complaints about advertising […]