Proposed government regulation of churches “will decimate freedom of religion in South Africa”. So says the the South African Church Defenders (SACD), a Christian advocacy movement that promotes spiritual and constitutional freedoms, in an affidavit presented at the High Court in Johannesburg.
The litigation comes as the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic (CRL) Rights Commission pushed ahead with creating a committee whose work it will be to find mechanisms for improved regulation of churches in South Africa.
But the SACD has asked that the court set aside the decision to appoint this committee on a number of grounds, including that the CRL Rights Commission is not authorised to…
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