South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 […]
Cape Town and Johannesburg residents are invited to make oral submissions on the 2012 film, magazine and computer games age classification guidelines next week, says the FPB. Members of the public may also have a say in setting the standards for classifying these media by submitting written comments on the […]
My confirmed meeting at Parliament on May 9 with Ms Rosey Sekese, the Director-General for Communications was postponed at the last minute when she was suddenly recalled to Pretoria. The purpose for the meeting was to discuss amendments to legislation to prohibit porn on TV. E-tv and other broadcasters are […]
Public comment (or lack of it) on sex, violence, blasphemy and other content in films, magazines and video games plays an important role in setting the standards that the Film and Publication Board (FPB) uses to classify these media. This emerges from comments by Yoliswa Makhasi, CEO of the FPB […]
While flipping through the television channels on Monday night (April 30), I inadvertently came across a series of adverts on E-tv providing porn SMS services to anyone with a cell-phone. Although it was flighted after 22h00, the fact that the next day was a public holiday and thousands of children were probably […]
————————————————————————————————————————————————— The handling of sexually explicit magazine content was in the spotlight in the Constitutional Court this week. Editors and publishers fought for greater self regulation.The State fought for the right to protect children by preventing the unrestricted publication of degrading pornography. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— The constitutional validity of sections of the […]
Women’s rights to equality and dignity are more important than TopTV’s rights to freedom of expression, or viewers’ rights to watch pornography at home, says the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) in a long-awaited explanation of its decision to block the broadcaster’s plans to launch three porn channels. In […]