On Monday, I had the opportunity to be part of the Media briefing on board the SAS Amatola. On Tuesday, I was given a guided tour of the Marshall Ustinov. It is an impressive vessel with 64 surface to air missiles, 16 cruise missiles and an impressive assortment of anti-submarine and other anti-aircraft weaponry. The Marshall Ustinov is part of the Russian Northern Fleet.​

On Wednesday, the South African, Russian and Chinese navies played soccer in Green Point. Commander Greyling van der Bijl of the South African Navy commented that they had also offered to challenge the Russian and Chinese guests to games of Rugby, but were give a firm, Nyet!​

“Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.” James 3:4
 
Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.FrontlineMissionSA.org
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Despite the Department’s claims that a 2016 review of the International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education (ITGSE) provides evidence that it effectively addresses the negative consequences which can result from a lack of education and information on sex and sexuality, studies using UNESCO’s own data clearly show that CSE can be harmful. What the Department failed to state is that subsequent studies conducted by, for example, the Institute for Research and Evaluation in 2018 and 2019 (which use UNESCO’s own data) clearly show that the implementation of CSE globally carries a clear risk of harm to children. ​

​These more recent studies reveal exactly the opposite results to those promised by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and show evidence of earlier sexual debuts, more sexual partners, less condom use, worse rates of STI and HIV infections and even increases in sexual violence.  They refute the DBE’s claim, both before the Basic Education Parliamentary Portfolio Committee and in their press statement, that the CSE curriculum does not sexualise children. Their claims directly contradict the results of the studies. Just one example in the curriculum (and there are many) involves the teacher giving the Grade 8 class a description of vaginal, anal and oral sex, so given that children are naturally inquisitive, how does this not run the risk of prematurely sexualising them?

DBE spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said, “The outcry around sex education is based on misinformation” and that “information pertaining to CSE was published on the DBE website". The only problem is that what the Department selectively published on its website is not CSE. It’s a sanitised version of the alleged “sex education” program - designed to mislead and deceive the public. ​

​Although the DBE claims that “there is no new content that has been added to the Life Orientation subject in schools”, this is clearly not correct. In terms of the DBE’s own press release, the Life Skills / Life Orientation curricula were “reviewed” to bring it in line with the International Technical Guidelines on Sexuality Education (ITGSE). This is clearly stated in the introduction to their own materials. (pictures)

​The Minister also said in Parliament, “Parents concerned by CSE can opt out of the program provided they obtain an alternative curriculum.” DBE spokesperson, Elijah Mhlanga later contradicted this and said, “parents of kids in public schools cannot opt out.”

​If CSE was part of the LO curriculum since 2000, why did the Minister run pilot programs in 2017/18/19 and plan to fully implement CSE in 2020? Why do parents have the option to “opt out” of CSE now if, like the DBE claims, parents were previously informed about the content and found nothing wrong with it?

DBE failed to respond to the key concerns raised in FOR SA’s press release.  These include the fact that the Minister of Basic Education has already signed off on the Scripted Lesson Plans (SLPs) and Educator guides for Grades 4 – 12; that the Midline Report findings on the pilot scheme have identified significant resistance from both parents and teachers; that the DBE’s project has been funded by, amongst others, USAID and incorporates UNESCO’s highly controversial ITGSE, contributed to by the notorious abortion agency, Planned Parenthood.​

​By Emma Vaughan-Jones
 
Henry Morton Stanley School of Christian Journalism
[email protected]
 
 
See Also:
Education In South Africa Is A Battleground
Education or Indoctrination?
The Value of a Christian Education
South Africa's Education Crisis and the Biblical Solution
The Bible and Pornography
Sex and Sexuality
Reforming our Families - Reforming our Nation
Fight for Family Values
The War Against Our Children
What is Comprehensive Sexuality Education?
PRESS RELEASE: FOR SA refutes false statements by DBE on CSE:
Other FOR SA Articles on CSE: https://forsa.org.za/?s=cse
 
Films and Documentaries:
 
Unplanned: Testimony of youngest director of Planned Parenthood
The War on our Children: The Comprehensive Sexuality Education Agenda
 
Books:

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“And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the Judgment.” Hebrews 9:27

​The eulogies from leaders praising Robert Mugabe are in sharp contrast to the celebrations in Zimbabwe over the demise of the Marxist dictator, who promised them a paradise and delivered perdition. 

“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.” 
​2 Peter 2:19

The Fake Leaders and Fake News reports: “guerrilla leader”, “hero”, “liberated his people from colonialism”, “instituted land reform”! Audacious, outrageous, deception and dishonesty are pervasive. The lamestream media has again disgraced itself as the purveyors of fake news and Marxist propaganda.

​EFF leader, Julius Malema called Mugabe a “Hero”, “Liberator” and “a perfect human being”! “president” Emmerson Mnangagwa praised Mugabe as an “icon of liberation.” “It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former president Comrade Robert Mugabe.” So said the new dictator who seized power from his previous leader in a 2017 coup.

Riddled with so many lies and hypocrisies, this is worthy of study to refute every phrase. Marxists do not believe that man has a soul, nor do they believe in “eternal peace!” Mugabe’s actual contribution was tyranny, brutality, cruelty, massacres, starvation, corruption, hyperinflation and the systematic destruction of a once safe, stable, productive country that used to be self-sufficient, even exporting food, to a disastrous basket state, beggar nation dependant on foreign aid and charity to even survive. More than half of all Zimbabweans have voted with their feet, a vote of no confidence in Mugabe’s ZANU ruled failed state, by fleeing endemic corruption and brutality in Zimbabwe to neighbouring countries.

Mugabe waged a brutal terrorist war against black civilians, white farmers, Christian missionaries and Red Cross ambulance workers. Mugabe never liberated anybody. Mugabe was a Marxist terrorist, dictator and corrupt blood diamond criminal.

Western media have also insulted the intelligence of their readers, or viewers, with misleading reports like this Associated Press (AP) article: “Former Zimbabwean leader, Robert Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power when the African country shook off white minority rule and presided for decades white economic turmoil and human rights violations eroded its early promise has died in Singapore.” AP writers, Farai Mutsaka and Cristopher Torchia claimed: “Mugabe enjoyed strong support from Zimbabwe’s people…!”

Most importantly, Mugabe was not an innocent victim of “economic turmoil and human rights violations”! Mugabe was the prime human agent responsible for the socialist policies which destroyed the robust economy inherited from Rhodesia. Mugabe initiated the communist revolution that violated human rights, including the Gukurahundi massacres of tens-of-thousands of civilians in Matabeleland, the chaotic farm invasions, the blood diamond wars in the Congo and Zimbabwe’s own blood diamond scandals in the Marange diamond fields, South East of Zimbabwe, since 2008. 

“Destructive forces are at work in the city, threats and lies never leave is streets.” 
​Psalm 55:11

​It all sounds like a bizarre Monty Python comic satire. The lunatics are running the asylum. If this was part of a scripted plot in a fiction film or book, it would be dismissed as: “Unbelievable!”

I have been asked: “Have you shared the Gospel with Mugabe?” Yes, we have. I have written to him and one of our Board Members, Bishop Bwanali Phiri, met with and prayed with Robert Mugabe and presented him with the gift of a Bible.

In 1990, the first multiparty elections were held in Croatia. On 25 June 1991, Croatia declared independence, which came into effect 8 October 1991. By 15 January 1992, Croatia was recognised as an independent country by the European Economic Community. The aggression by Yugoslavia was effectively ended August 1995, with a decisive victory by Croatia. Since then, 5 August has been observed as a Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day.

In Slovenia, a group of intellectuals articulated the case for Slovene independence in 1987, in the magazine Nova Revija. The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights was formed. Demands for democratisation and independence for Slovenia forced the communist government to enact a number of democratic reforms. In September 1989, constitutional amendments were passed to introduce parliamentary democracy to Slovenia. On 7 March 1990 the Slovenian assembly changed the official name of the state to the Republic of Slovenia. April 1990, the first democratic elections in Slovenia took place. On 23 December 1990, more than 88% of the electorate voted in a referendum for a sovereign and independent Slovenia. Slovenia declared independence 25 June 1991. The Yugoslav People’s Army invaded on 27 June 1991, which led to the 10-Day War. The result was the Brijuni Agreement and the withdrawal of the Yugoslav army from Slovenia. December 1991, a new constitution was adopted, followed by laws on denationalisation and privatisation of state enterprises in 1992. The members of the European Union recognised Slovenia as an independent state on 15 January 1992.​

Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are three Baltic states which were occupied over the centuries by Sweden, Poland and Russia.

​Estonia was also occupied over the centuries by Polish, Swedish and Russian forces and declared independence, 24 February 1918. On 6 August 1940, Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Red Army and incorporated into the Soviet Union. Estonians continued to resist the Soviet occupation for years after the Second World War. The Forest Brothers’ Resistance movement opposed the Soviet policy of collectivisation and forced removals of Estonians to make way for Russian immigration. In 1987, the Singing Revolution began and by 1988, the Popular Front of Estonia became the standard-bearer for Estonian independence. The Estonian National Independence Party was the first non-communist party in the Soviet Union. It demanded full restoration of independence. On 16 November 1988, the Estonian Supreme Soviet issued a sovereignty declaration asserting the primacy of Estonian laws over Soviet Union laws. On 23 August 1989, about 2 million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians participated in a mass demonstration forming the Baltic Way human chain across the three republics demanding restoration of independence. In 1990, the Congress of Estonia was formed as a representative body of Estonian citizens. In March 1991, a Referendum was held, where 77% of voters supported independence. A Moscow coup attempt was exposed and resisted and Estonia declared its restoration of independence 20 August 1990, which is now observed as a national holiday in Estonia. The last units of the Red Army left Estonia in 1994. In 1992, Estonia launched economic reforms for privatisation and free market economy. In 2004, Estonia joined the European Union and NATO.

Initially, even the leaders of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) were skeptical that the map could ever be redrawn, as the African Union had resisted any changes to the borders delineated in the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. I argued strenuously with Colonel John Garang, the leader of the SPLA and Commander Silva Kiir, the second in Command of the SPLA, that only independence for South Sudan could secure their future and freedom. Anything else would mean the continuation of oppression by the Arab North, as they would be a minority in their own country. Although Blacks are a majority in South Sudan, they were a minority in the whole country in Sudan. Missionaries had pleaded with Great Britain in 1955 not to include the Black Christians and animists of the South into an Arab ruled Sudan. Suggestions were made to incorporate Equatoria into Kenya or Uganda, but to no avail.

The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, also known as the Congo Conference, or West Africa Conference, sought to avoid conflict by regularising European protectorates and colonies in Africa to effectively eradicate the slave trade and to avoid conflict between the European powers. The European powers gathered at the European conference, were also seeking to prevent rising American, Russian and Japanese encroachments on Africa. However, due to lack of information and a very incomplete understanding of the realities of Africa, often borders were drawn along lines of longitude, or latitude, or utilising a river. The fact that tribes and nations lived along both sides of those arbitrary border markings, was doubtless not realised at the time.

It is inexcusable that since independence the Organisation of African Unity has steadfastly refused to allow maps to be redrawn. The apparent exception being Eritrea. But Eritrea was a separate entity and only forced to be part of Abyssinia after the Second World War. This led to a longstanding civil war until Eritrea’s independence was re-established in 1991. So, the redrawing of the maps and recognising of independence of South Sudan was a monumentally important precedent.

“…Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” 2 Corinthians 3:17
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Dr. Peter Hammond
Reformation Society
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email: [email protected]
www.ReformationSA.org
www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org

See also:
Secessions in the Bible and History
A Case for Cape Independence
Magna Carta

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​Consider this: every two minutes, a child is exploited in the sex industry. Children, some as young as 8 or 9 years old, or younger – are being bought and sold for sex worldwide. Reread and let that statement soak in! We are a sick society!

Debbie, a straight-A student who belonged to a close-knit Air Force family, is an example of this trading of flesh. Debbie was 15 when she was snatched from her driveway by an acquaintance-friend. Forced into a car, Debbie was bound and taken to an unknown location, held at gunpoint, and raped by multiple men. She was then crammed into a small dog kennel and forced to eat dog biscuits. Debbie’s captors advertised her services on Craigslist. Those who responded were often married with children! And the money that Debbie “earned” for sex was given to her kidnappers. The gang raping continued. After searching the apartment where Debbie was held captive, police finally found Debbie stuffed in a drawer under a bed.
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Holly Austin Smith was abducted when she was 14 years old, raped and then forced to prostitute herself. Her pimp, when brought to trial, was only made to serve a year in prison. He should have been executed!

One woman recounts how her trafficker made her lie face down on the floor when she was pregnant and then literally jumped on her back, forcing her to miscarry. Peter Landesman paints the full horrors of life for those victims of the sex trade in his New York Times article “The Girls Next Door”, he writes, “Andrea told me that she and the other children she was held with were frequently beaten to keep them off balance and obedient. Sometimes they were videotaped while being forced to have sex with adults or one another. Her cell of sex traffickers offered three age ranges of sex partners – toddler to age 4, 5-12, and teens – as well as what she called a ‘damage group.’ ‘In the damage group, they can hit you or do anything they want to,’ she explained. ‘Though, sex always hurts when you are little, so it’s always violent, everything was much more painful once you were placed in the damage group.’”

I ask you again, how do you define a sick, grotesquely perverse and dying culture?

​And this growing evil is, for all intents and purposes, out in the open. Trafficked women and children are advertised on the Internet, transported on our freeways, and bought and sold on our streets. Our culture is off-the-charts evil. But does anyone care? Does this make you angry?

And so the truth is that we are all guilty of contributing to this human suffering. The traffickers are guilty. The sick male customers who want to have sex with little girls are guilty. The corrupt law enforcement and government officials who ignore the trafficking or are actually profiting from it are guilty. The women’s rights groups who do nothing are guilty. The foreign peacekeepers, aid workers and military personnel who contribute to the demand for sex slaves are guilty. And every individual who does not raise an objection to the atrocities being committed against trafficked children in almost every nation around the globe is guilty. And everyone who is voting for political parties that legalize pornography and essentially prostitution are guilty. As Edmund Burke said: “All that is necessary that evil triumph is that good men (and women) do nothing.”

​“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” Ephesians 5:11

We are all guilty, but we serve a God who is gracious and merciful, and even though we are underserving, God says, “if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14. Let’s humble ourselves, let’s confess our sin, let’s pray, let’s seek God’s face, let’s be renewed in our minds by meditating on His Word – Then God is faithful and just and He will forgive us and heal us. Let’s do this today.

 The major underlying reason for this great evil is the collapsing of culture, morality and spiritual life – an evil culture that is now being spread all over the world – a culture where most people can no longer even recognize great evil – let alone fight back against it. Earlier generations would never have tolerated pornography available on every computer and cell phone; or the death of marriage and family that we now see – nor would they have tolerated a sex industry that is turning hundreds of thousands of young girls into sex slaves. We are reaping what we have sown. We must stop the wicked from exploiting, abusing, mutilating, and murdering innocent children, because they are all God’s creatures. Will we ever stop being passive? Will we ever get angry as a people and say: “This is enough! This will go no further!” Will we ever fight back?
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 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” Proverbs 31:8 
 
By Emma Vaughan-Jones
Henry Morton Stanley School of Christian Journalism Researcher
[email protected] | [email protected]
 
Sources: The information in this article is taken largely from a McAlvany Intelligence Advisor’s article written by Don McAlvany.
 
To listen to an interview on this subject on From the Frontline, click here.
 
See also:       Slavery Today – Setting the Captives Free
                      Women’s Day Anti-Trafficking Campaign
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To view this article www.ReformationSA.org website with pictures, click here.
To listen to this presentation on Sermon Audio, click here.
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Atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki, 9 August 1945.
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What led to this researched article and presentation, for which there are video and audio links, was when my youngest son, Calvin, was to join the Scouts Jamboree (an international, every four year, event), in Japan, August 2015. I was immediately suspicious that they were going to use this International Scout Jamboree event for some anti-American propaganda concerning the A-bomb which everyone knew was essential to end WW2 and to save both America and Japanese lives. 

That was why I poured myself into research and was astounded to find that all America’s top military leaders, at the time, opposed it! I am not politically correct, I have never been part of the social justice warriors. I am not part of a “we hate America” movement. I have written many pro-American articles, countered much of the anti-American rhetoric of the left, in camps, courses, on radio, on TV, at public meetings, in schools, in colleges, in debate, for over 40 years. That is why American patriots like Dr. James Kennedy had me regularly on his radio programme, TV programme and in his pulpit.

I do not support socialists like Chomsky. However, even a stopped clock can be right twice a day. For this reason, I occasionally even quote Karl Marx. Marx said that the first battlefield is the re-writing of history, his disciples have been super busy doing that.

​In this presentation, I am quoting from Admiral William Leahy, General Douglas McArthur, General Curtis le May, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and other American leaders including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.

In this presentation, I am quoting from Admiral William Leahy, General Douglas McArthur, General Curtis le May, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and other American leaders including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.

​It astounded me that throughout the late 40s and 50s, American opposition to the use of the A-bomb in Japan was consistent among conservatives. It was the liberal democrats who were justifying this A-bomb attack, while the Republican conservatives were in opposition. For the reasons given.

My good friend, General Ben Partin, U.S. Air Force retired, is a Board member of Frontline Fellowship.  General Partin was the first to explain to me how counter-productive the saturation bombing/strategic bombing campaigns of the RAF and USAAF were during WW2. It was General Partin who pioneered the precision guided weapons. Because of his conviction, as a Christian USAF Weapons Specialist, he was convinced that the strategic bombing campaign/saturation bombing of cities prolonged the war and of course, greatly increased the “collateral damage” of civilian deaths. He therefore promoted and energetically dedicated his life to the development of LAZER, GPS, button batteries, producing, in time, cruise missiles.​

I am not a pacifist and I am by no means anti-American. It is a mark of a Christian to be self-critical in a balanced way. Military ethics are my concern as one who has regularly lectured the military and trained military chaplains. What is the point of this study? To show the truth of what General George Patton wrote about in 1945, that communist agents of influence had infiltrated the U.S. State Department and White House to such an extent that they were serving the cause of communism in both Asia and Europe. The U.S. Military were against it. The scientists were against it. Even many senior politicians, such as U.S. Secretary of Defence, Under Secretary of the Navy and Military Intelligence opposed it. However, as Admiral Nimitz reported: “Truman succumbed to a tiny handful of people putting pressure on the President to drop atom bombs on Japan.”

​In the documentary The Fog of War, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara recalled General Curtis LeMay, who relayed the Presidential order to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, said: "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"​

McArthur had also told Roosevelt that: "Peace could be made with the Japanese any time after the Philippines were taken… with their supporting legs cut off, they were beaten." He said that: "Roosevelt, however was determined that he should not command in the final movement on Japan…"

General McArthur declared: "We would have avoided all of the losses of the atomic bomb and the entry of Russia into Manchuria, had the Japanese peace overtures been accepted, in early 1945."

McArthur told President Herbert Hoover in 1946 that: "Truman's policies were enabling Russia to make a puppet state out of Manchuria and betraying all of China and Mongolia to communism."

Dr. Peter Hammond
Reformation Society
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P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
[email protected]
www.ReformationSA.org
www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org

An audio CD of this presentation, with PowerPoint, is available from: Christian Liberty Books, PO Box 358, Howard Place 7450, Cape Town, South Africa, Tel: 021-689-7478, Fax: 086-551-7490, Email: [email protected] and Website: www.christianlibertybooks.co.za.
 
See also:
Pray for Japan (also in PowerPoint).
Mitsuo Fuchida - From Pearl Harbour to Calvary (also in PowerPoint, video and PDF Tract).
Was the Attack on Pearl Harbour Really an Unprecedented Surprise?

​On Tuesday, 28 May 2019, I attended the FOR SA Roadshow Conference and was gripped by the pressing threats to freedom we are currently facing in South Africa.

​As Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, pointed out, “We need to be proactive in contesting for our freedom. Once laws have been passed it is way more difficult to undo them, than it is to originally stand against them and stop them from changing.” We need to protect and promote our religious freedom or we will lose it. Laws are being implemented that are eroding Biblical values. There is a global trend developing, in which activists are teeing-up a [State] commission against certain organizations, churches and individuals, like pastors. Even if the activists don’t win the case against whom they are accusing, they often bankrupt the accused in the process, which stops them anyway. Which is the result they were initially aiming at. This is undermining Christian organizations all over the world. We need to be knowledgeable of this and be a part of the solution. We cannot be willingly ignorant in the desire to stay hopeful.
 
It is a time for us to be wise - wise as Christians, wise as businessmen and wise as citizens. We are not to be ashamed of the Gospel. Even back in Bible times Christians were labelled as troublemakers, just as we are today. We are labelled troublemakers, because sadly, the truth is considered hate speech, to those who hate the truth. There is no need though, to be fearful or overwhelmed, but rather we should know what rights we have, and implement them. This, being coupled with being filled with the Spirit, will empower us to stand firm in our Faith and stand up for what the Word of God says. Not just believing it, but being able to say what we believe and living it out in our daily lives!

​Today people say you can believe whatever you want to believe, but then we Christians are not allowed to say it, and we are not allowed to live out what we believe. “You are free to believe what you want! But for goodness sake, don’t say it and definitely don’t act in accordance!” But according to the existing South African Constitution, our religious freedom doesn’t only give us the right to believe what we want, but the right to be able to say it and live it out too.

​FOR SA speakers, Adv. Nadene Badenhorst and Michael Swain, pointed out how challenges against our religious freedoms manifest in two ways. Firstly, through the changing of laws, threatening to limit what we can say or do, and, secondly, through strategic court cases, where the outcome has far-reaching ramifications, because through these outcomes future laws are shaped. It is important to understand that court cases shape precedents, where a previous case or legal decision, may then be followed in subsequent similar cases in the future. In the case of binding precedent, the previous result has to be followed! So, a court case has higher reaching ramifications than just those directly involved with that specific court case, as those outcomes are then used in future cases and in future laws being made.

​There are now laws trying to be passed in South Africa, such as the proposed Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill (“the Hate Speech Bill”), which, if passed by Parliament, will limit our ability to say what we believe. There are many cases where churches, pastors, Christian authors and anyone expressing their views and beliefs, are being taken to court for stating what it is that they believe. What they are able to say is being limited. In effect, people are not being permitted to say, write, or preach what they believe. Or any aspect of it! For example, child discipline - by saying that parents may not give their children hidings, or any form of physical discipline, what they are technically saying is we need to scratch those verses out the Bible. That’s not acceptable! It’s not about whether they have interpreted it correctly or not, or whether spanking is right or not. It’s a problem of freedom of religion, because if they can scratch out one Scripture, however it may be being interpreted, then what stops them from trying to scratch out any other Bible verse next? 

​The definition of hate speech in our Constitution (which is the highest law of the land and to which every other law must conform) is very narrow.  It defines hate speech as speech that advocates hatred (i.e. it stirs up hatred) in the listeners and that incites them to then go and cause harm. For example, “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!”, or “ISIS must come kill all the gays”. That then is incitement to harm others, and that needs to be regulated, prevented and punished. Where there is a call to action of harm, the state does need to intervene, but it already has the power to do so as there are existing laws in place to enforce that. We don’t need to add any more, infringing further on our rights of freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Any statement, written or verbal, that does not advocate hate AND incite harm is not actually hate speech, including any scriptural statement, such as “Homosexuality is a sin. God puts parameters in place for marriage. For example you cannot marry your brother or sister, you cannot marry a child, you cannot marry the same sex.” That is not hate speech as its neither advocating (i.e. stirring up) hate, nor inciting harm against anyone. In fact, it can actually be said out of love. This is why HOW we choose to say something is so important. Just like saying that lying is a sin, doesn’t mean I hate every single person on this earth, because every single one of us is a liar. We are simply stating what God constitutes as sin in His Word, not out of condescending judgement or hate, but out of love for the person and their soul. Just as Jesus hates the sin that we commit, but still loves us, the sinner – as long as we’re not revelling in our sin and we are rather actually repentant and trying to become more Christ-like. If a pastor said that homosexuality is a sin and so you need to kill gays, then that is definitely considered hate speech and there should be consequences. But if there is no advocacy of hatred against the person and there is no provocation of causing the person harm, and someone simply feels offended, that should not be categorized as hate speech.

​If just anything that someone felt offended by, was considered hate speech, imagine the consequences! It would be absolute chaos! It would turn into he said, she said! Imagine: “Homosexuality is a sin.” “A sin?! I’m offended! I’m taking you to court! You’re a homophobic bigot!” “A homophobic bigot? I am not! I’m offended! I’m taking you to court!” Anything could suddenly be considered offensive, and everyone would just be taking each other to court.
Ironically, the people who take them to court claim that what was said to them is offensive, but in the process they call others: bigots, homophobes, fundamentalists, etc. Isn’t that offensive too? Often the ones shouting loudest, are the ones guilty of the offense they condemn.
 
Where is the line drawn currently on hate speech? If your dignity is violated then that is an unlawful act in South Africa, punishable up until now, with the crime of Crimen Iniuria. This could result in either imprisonment or a fine. Cases that have made the news headlines that were cases of crimen iniuria include the likes of Vicky Momberg and Penny Sparrow. In the case of Sparrow, she was charged with crimen iniuria and having pled guilty, was given the choice between 12 months in prison or a R5,000,00 fine. She was additionally sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, wholly suspended five years, during which time she must not be convicted again of crimen iniuria. In Momberg’s case, she was found guilty on four counts of crimen iniuria in connection for racist statements and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, suspended by one year.

​Freedom of speech is a fundamental right, especially in a democracy. How can a democratic government try and control our speech? Freedom of speech is not only valuable, but absolutely necessary for freedom.

​Our Constitutional Freedom of Speech excludes three things: incitement of imminent violence, propaganda for war, or the advocacy of hatred (based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion) and which constitutes the incitement to cause harm. (Section 16(2) of the Constitution.)
 
If offense is taken, that in itself is not hate speech, it needs to incite harm, hatred or war to be legally considered hate speech.
 
According to our Lord’s Commandments, the only limit to speech, is do not use the Lord your God’s name in vain, and do not give false testimony against your neighbour, do not steal his good name. Other than that we have freedom of speech, as opposed to South Africa that has many laws. Yet for some reason people say that Christianity is just a religion of rules and regulations, and that we live in a free country. 

​Our existing freedom is being challenged right now in South Africa. The move to legislate against offensive speech and for it to possibly be considered as hate speech, makes hate speech much more subjective – it is no longer the objectively determinable advocacy of hatred (based on four grounds only) AND that incites people to cause harm, rather the question becomes if the hearer feels offended. As, if someone arguably can see that it could possibly hurt someone’s feelings, it would now be considered hate speech.
 
What makes the proposed Hate Speech Bill so dangerous is that it makes speech a crime – a criminal offence, with a minimum three-year goal sentence and a life-long criminal record. So, if you say something that someone doesn’t like, you can be arrested and taken to prison, whereas before you actually had to stir up hatred (advocate hatred) in others and incite them to cause the person harm, in order for it to be considered hate speech. Just as it would make sense, if the conversation of people conspiring to plan a murder was heard, it would be unlawful.
 
Under the new proposed terms, hate speech could be a person communicating that he/she believes that there are only two genders (male and female), this statement will qualify as “hate speech” in terms of the Bill.

​God doesn’t approve of drunkenness, or homosexuality, or paedophilia. While that is Biblically accurate, that could be considered hate speech if this bill is passed, and one could receive a criminal record for that! This bill should make us outraged! They are trying to infringe on what we can say and do. The limiting of freedom of religion will then follow right behind. 

So therefore, as we can see, there are already necessary and adequate laws in place, the addition of the proposed new Hate Speech bill is unnecessary. People like Penny Sparrow and Vicky Momberg are being prosecuted on existing laws, so there is obviously no need to extend these laws. Those advocating the Hate Speech Bill are trying to make the law too broad. What they are trying to change it to is unconstitutional. People will eventually just stop speaking and debating, as they are fearful to say something they may be prosecuted for, so people will just shut up. Exactly what the enemy wants.
 
So, before they succeed in trying to shut us up, we need to make sure our voices are heard. They are trying to encroach on our freedoms, conscience and rights. If we don’t exercise our freedom of speech we will lose it. Just like all of our rights, if we don’t use them, we will lose them.

​There is a threat against parents being allowed to raise children according to their Biblical convictions, with Biblical values and morals. Parents are far better equipped to know what is better for their children than the state is. Of course where there is abuse, the state needs to get involved and there are many existing laws enabling that. We do not need to just keep adding more and more laws, but rather to properly enforce existing ones. If parents are not allowed to raise their children as Christians, not allowed to teach them Biblical values and morals, not allowed to discipline them, not allowed to home educate them, we are going to end up raising a generation that does need more and more laws because they wouldn’t have been taught values and morals, they will have squashed their consciences and will not know the difference between right and wrong and so will need to have laws guiding them. The problem is people deserting God and His Laws.

​Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), as it is implemented in many overseas schools, radically sexualizes children. We are now facing it being implemented in South Africa. The UN and UNESCO promote this, to children as young as 6 years old, teaching them things such as how to masturbate, anal sex is normal, they are also exposed to pornography as entertainment and they encourage children to start exploring their sexuality. Some are trying to make this curriculum compulsory. It is a radical explicit sexualisation of children. But parents should be able to choose who teaches these difficult topics, at what age, with sensitivity and Biblically, but the state is trying to take the right to make these decisions away from the parents. 

​The Civil Union Amendment Bill has been passed by the NA, but still has to be passed by NCOP. (I.e. it needs to be passed by both houses of Parliament.) But, in terms of this Bill, all State-employed marriage officers (i.e. both marriage officers that work at DHA and magistrates) will have to solemnise same-sex marriages.
 
The result is that people who conscientiously object to same-sex marriage and who cannot, on grounds of their conscience, solemnise it, will not be able to become magistrates. So, subsequently, from there, unable to progress through the legal ranks and become an acting judge, judge, chief justice etc. So in effect, by saying that they cannot rule on their conscience, they are trying to take away the laws that God has written on our hearts, and instead write their own laws in their place. 

​The new Hate Speech Bill fits right in with the LGBT+ Agenda, where before you have any conversation you will have to ask how they would like to be addressed: as a man? Woman? Both? Neither? Building? King? etc. If you don’t then use their preferred pronoun, then there are penalties. Would I be able to request to be addressed as King Emma? Or what if I preferred to be addressed as President Cyril Ramaphosa? Would this be allowed? If the answer is no, and the reasoning is because well, I’m not President Cyril Ramaphosa, then surely that invalidates the argument as a whole? It doesn’t make sense to me. But either way, if a man identifies as a woman, they should have the freedom to feel that way, but we should not be forced to agree or forced to call them by their pronoun or such. Because that’s not free speech, that’s forced speech. That’s not acceptable. We need to fight for freedom not for infringement. 

​Some Churches say that they cannot marry homosexuals, because it doesn’t line up with their values, as it does not fit the Biblical definition of marriage. This is not inequality. They would say just the same thing if witches came and asked to use the church building for a séance. The church would say sorry we can’t allow it because it's not in line with our values. People should be able to have the freedom to say this and vice versa, if a church wanted to use a mosque for a service, the Imam should have the freedom to refuse if he didn’t agree with the service. The problem is that activists are not looking for equality and acceptance; they are looking for conformity, promotion and more privileges than others. 

In the case of Ecclesia de Lange she was dismissed by the Methodist Church as a minister, because she transgressed their doctrinal beliefs by wishing to marry her same-sex partner. She then took them to court for discrimination. Current laws that are in place allow each organization to decide for themselves where they can draw the line, but if the proposed bills are allowed to go forward, then the organizations would not be allowed to choose for themselves but will be told what to do. This is taking away the churches right of association. It is taking away freedoms. It’s putting the state in charge of even more matters that it has no right to control. FOR SA points out, it’s not about trying to stand for a particular side, saying that yes they must hire her, or no they cannot hire her. What they are saying is that people, the church, etc., should be able to choose for themselves where the line can be drawn on such matters. 

The outcomes in such cases are so important, as it sets the precedent for the outcome of future cases. So, as Adv. Badenhorst said, “a win for one is a win for all, but a loss for one is a loss for all.” We need to use our voices and stand together. 

​Freedom of religion is very much something that needs to be protected. Although many think of religious freedom as only applying to fundamentalist religious zealots, it is a right that is neutral – it applies as equally to my Muslim neighbour as it does to my Christian brother, or Atheist friend. It’s not about whether this is correct for Christians specifically, but rather a freedom for all people to live out what they believe, because if religious freedom goes for my Muslim neighbour, it goes for me. Standing up for freedom of religion is not standing for Christianity only, it’s standing for the right of everyone to believe as their conscience dictates, and to be able to state it, and live it out accordingly. People need to understand that it’s not wrong to fight for freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is to protect the right to believe whatever you want as long as it is lawful (e.g. in line with taxation laws, and in line with immigration laws, and safety laws etc.), but the new bill is trying to limit people from living out and talking about their beliefs. Although there is a religious freedom exemption clause in the new draft of the Bill, it still falls short from adequately protecting people when they state their religious beliefs. People want to “regulate” things that are going on and therefore they want more laws and want the state to bring down a heavy hand on those who disagree. This happens, when people fear what is different. That’s where the problem comes in.

​Having said this though, people have the right to believe what they want, but one cannot hide crimes under the law of freedom of religion. For example, if you do something that is against the law, such as kill someone, assault someone, or incite imminent harm, this is a criminal act. This is not exercising freedom of religion; it is breaking other laws and human rights. So, we don’t need more laws, we just need the existing laws to be implemented. 

​Organizations should not be closed down on their doctrinal or theological values, as this infringes on their freedom of religion and their right to believe what their conscience dictates. If that gets regulated, then our freedom to believe and live in accordance with our conscience dictates, is also infringed on. So, the problem is, if people want individuals to be appointed to make these decisions, they need to think carefully about the implications of this. Who will appoint those people? How do you know that what they believe will be in line with what you believe? What if they’re not? Or what if they are now, but that then changes in the future? So rather than trying to enforce what people can believe, they should rather allow freedom… for all… as long as what they are doing is not violating others’ rights to life, liberty and property.

​This is what happens when you start trying to regulate things. You may have good intentions, but the outcome can be disastrous. 6,000 churches were shut down in Rwanda, as they made a regulation that you have to have a 3-year theological degree before you can be a pastor! Does having a 3-year degree warrant you to be a pastor, or does the Lord’s call on your life warrant you? The Lord’s call on your life! Not to say that it wouldn’t then be wise to educate yourself. 2 Timothy 2:15 says, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth.” This could be done through a degree, but that is definitely not the only right way.
 
2,000 churches were shut down in Angola, as they made regulations stating that one needed 100,000 signatures before you can be a practitioner! Then if you somehow managed to get that right, they were then charged a registration fee per person per year!
 
There is a big difference between registration and regulation. It may be fine for organizations to choose to be registered, but their theology and doctrine should not be regulated, unless it's breaking real laws, for example if someone is working as an illegal alien, or inciting harm etc.
But you should, for instance, be able to say you are pro-choice if you want to and I can say I am pro-life. But what I can't say, is, “All abortionists should be killed!” That is inciting harm, which is against the law and vice versa, you can’t say all pro-lifers should be tortured and burnt or whatever.

​The over-regulation of anything is dangerous. As soon as you get the power of the state combining with any section of religion, it will end badly. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) is now trying to do this. They are trying to receive executive power, which could then require a change to the Constitution. 

​We need decentralization not further centralization. The CRL’s term of office expired in February of this year (2019). Christians need to apply for chair positions. We need to put action to our beliefs to make a change. If we sit back, people who oppose our views are going to stand up for their beliefs and then limit our freedoms. 

Freedom of religion is freedom for all religions; this is what we should fight for, so that the Gospel can freely be shared. We are fighting for the freedom of all religions and people, because if these bills are passed, everyone’s rights will be infringed upon. We should be fighting for the freedom of Muslims, Hindus, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, whoever, to decide what they want to believe. That is a human right. As Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) Adv. Nadene Badenhorst, said, “Even though I might not agree with what you believe, I will fight to the death for your right to believe it.” This is a statement I feel we could all do well to adopt.
 
All these changes are trying to be made on our watch, under our noses, and we are going to be held responsible. We are going to have to give an account to the next generation, as this effects the next generation. What are we allowing to happen on our watch?
 
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1
 
Emma Vaughan-Jones
Africa Christian Action
PO Box 23632
Claremont 7735
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689 4480
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.christianaction.org.za
www.hmsschoolofchristianjournalism.org
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See also:
“Hate Speech” Bill Threat to Free Speech article
“Hate Speech” Bill Threat to Free Speech audio
“Hate Speech” Bill Threat to Free Speech video
“Hate Speech” Bill Threat to Free Speech video in English/Zulu as presented at the
Ministers Conference 2019 at KwaSizabantu Mission

In the 1994 elections, 19,533,000 votes were cast. More than at any elections since. Even though South Africa’s population has more than doubled since 1994, the number of votes cast has consistently been lower. ​

Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.frontlinemissionsa.org

 
See also:
Elections in South Africa
Buses, Trains and Police Stations Burn
Deliberate Arson in the Cape
Why No Christian Should Support BBBEE Affirmative Action Racism
Farms and Freedom Under Fire in South Africa
Fraud, Failure and Farce – Land Expropriation Hearings
Is South Africa Entering the Second Phase of the Revolution?
National Suicide of the Xhosa
National Repentance
Why Most Youth Did Not Vote in the Last Election and How We Can Change that in 2019
God and Government articles
God, Government and the Ten Commandments
When All Men Speak Well of You
The Battle for the Mind in the News Media
How Propaganda Changes People and Perceptions

​The evident lack of respect for life and property, as well as waste of millions of Rands of property and thousands of hours of travellers frustrate over interrupted schedules. These incidents have a disastrous impact on the economy.

​Rampant arson, apparently with impunity, has a catastrophic impact on any economy, chasing away investors and employers, driving down the value of the Rand, stealing from everyone as the Rand/Dollar and Pound exchange rates become more and more punitive to South Africans. The end result is millions more unemployed. The catastrophic chaos and havoc wrecked at peak traffic times, coming along with the general failure of both national and provincial governments to protect lives and property, are even more compelling evidence of the general failure of government. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.” Proverbs 14:34

​Dr. Peter Hammond
Africa Christian Action
PO Box 23632
Claremont 7735
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.christianaction.org.za

 
See also:
Deliberate Arson in the Cape
Your Iniquities Have Separated Your From Your God
Is South Africa Entering the Second Phase of the Revolution?
The National Suicide of the Xhosa
Farms and Freedoms Under Fire in South Africa
Fraud, Failure and Farce – Land Expropriation Hearings
God's Law or Chaos
God, Government and The Ten Commandments
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​Many immediately speculated whether this could be an act of terrorism, or deliberate arson. The Paris prosecutor’s office said that it had opened an inquiry into the incident. However, president Macron’s government made an official statement, while the fire fighters were still battling to control the blaze that they had ruled out any possibility of it being deliberate arson or an act of terrorism! That seemed unprecedentedly premature to announce such an official verdict before any forensic investigation could have even been begun. Normally it takes many days, or even weeks, for fire brigade investigators to conclusively determine the cause of any fire.

​On 4 September 2016 a car containing six canisters of gas was found parked near Notre Dame in Paris. This led to the arrest of two women and two men, all Muslims, said to be connected with ISIS. One of the women, Sarah Hervouet, 23 years old, was engaged to Adel Kermishe, who was one of the terrorists in the Normandy Church attack who was responsible for killing 85-year old priest, Jacques Hamel, by slitting his throat by the high altar. He also critically wounded an 86-year old man. The Normandy Church attack took place 26 July 2016 at Saint-Etienne-Du-Rouvary, Normandy.

We need to do more than rebuild the walls, we need to lay solid foundations to rebuild civilisation on the Bible, applying the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life. “Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.” Isaiah 58:12
 
Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
Tel: 021-689-4480
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.frontlinemissionsa.org

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The GREAT CATHEDRALS of BRITAIN
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