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SA's General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, 2023, known as the "Spy Bill," is a looming threat to religious freedom and civil liberties.

Freedom of Religion South Africa delivered over 10 000 written submissions to the National Council of Provinces opposing the Hate Speech Bill.

Submissions from the public to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on the controversial Hate Speech Bill, closed at 13:00 on Thursday, 25th May.  Despite the short 26-work-day comment period given for comment, well over 50 000 individual submissions have been delivered to the NCOP, many by organisations representing tens of thousands of members of the diverse faith communities of South Africa. “This proposed law is a serious threat to our constitutional right to religious freedom and the fundamental democratic right of freedom of speech,” said Michael Swain, Exe...

As the new hate crimes and hate speech bill closes for comment on Thursday, Daniela Ellerbeck writes that the problem with trying to silence viewpoints that we neither like nor want is that we simultaneously stifle the flow of information and ideas.

After years of a slow and tortuous process, the ANC’s Hate Speech Bill is now within a few weeks of being promulgated.