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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message | template |
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2024-11-16 13:23:52 +02:00 | kevin | No I do not | All of the above | It's a Trojan house, over policing and allows for the existence of diabolical things like pedophiles having the right to relation with kids of consenting age and then reducing the age to as low as they can in other regulations or legislature | No I do not |
2024-11-05 09:58:53 +02:00 | Dawn | No I do not | All of the above | This is beyond insanity. A democratic right is freedom of speech or is free speech only allowed if it concerns with a corrupt government? LEAVE TGE CHILDREN OUT OF THIS BILL | Yes I do |
2024-10-25 10:53:51 +02:00 | Relson | No I do not | The Bill is vague and ambiguous | No I do not | |
2024-10-24 17:11:41 +02:00 | Marion | No I do not | The Bill is unnecessary | Yes I do | |
2024-10-24 08:24:26 +02:00 | Lee | No I do not | All of the above | All speech should be free. Not just the speech the government LIkES. If you have a mind you should be able to speak it. Malema gets away with it every single time! But it’s already rules for thee but not for me with this government. | No I do not |
2024-10-15 20:23:41 +02:00 | Lesley | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-10-12 10:41:52 +02:00 | Teresa | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-10-03 18:42:55 +02:00 | Aimee-Louise | No I do not | All of the above | The implementation of this Bill may lead to an unreasonable and unjustifiable limitation of our right to freedom of speech given the broad and vague language used. While I acknowledge that at times our rights need to limitednin order to protect the rights of others, the limitations should be necessary and fair. Our existing legislation provides sufficiently against hate speech and the proposed additions are thus not necessary. | Yes I do |
2024-10-02 22:36:47 +02:00 | Neil | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-10-02 08:50:56 +02:00 | Vera | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-10-01 23:41:23 +02:00 | Andy | No I do not | All of the above | No I do not | |
2024-09-16 10:06:36 +02:00 | Tiaan | No I do not | All of the above | I completely oppose this Bill, it merely damages our lack of freedom of speech even further. It's anti-human. | Yes I do |
2024-09-07 06:42:19 +02:00 | Rashied | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-08-25 15:51:56 +02:00 | Werner | No I do not | All of the above | Too vague words | No I do not |
2024-08-15 14:28:36 +02:00 | Carrie | No I do not | All of the above | Hate speech can have innumerable consequences for the population. A joke, a meme , that is intended to be humorous can be termed hate speech. It will probably include monitoring all social media. Revenge and intimidation and just plain language difference misunderstandings will arise | Yes I do |
2024-07-04 12:43:41 +02:00 | D | No I do not | Other | Another way where free speech and personaql opinion/feeling is being manipulated or oppressed to accomodate everyone except those who actually think logically. | No I do not |
2024-06-29 14:13:22 +02:00 | Jen | Not fully | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-06-27 08:06:56 +02:00 | J | No I do not | The Bill is unnecessary | What is the govt so fearful of? | No I do not |
2024-05-29 20:06:19 +02:00 | Juliet | No I do not | The Bill is unnecessary | Yes I do | |
2024-05-19 14:22:42 +02:00 | Reinhard | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-05-17 09:06:37 +02:00 | Tanya | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-05-10 16:50:20 +02:00 | Ingrid | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-05-10 08:16:43 +02:00 | Graeme | No I do not | All of the above | Dear Mr President, The Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill (the Bill), passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday, 5 December 2023, refers. REQUEST: I am writing to appeal to Your Excellency to send the Bill back to the National Assembly for reconsideration, because of the constitutional concerns below. CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS ABOUT THE BILL’S DEFINITION OF HATE SPEECH: The Bill contravenes section 36 of the Constitution, because it is: Unnecessary as existing laws have already been successfully implemented in various criminal and civil cases of hate speech. Overbroad: The Bill’s definition of hate speech is broader than the Constitution’s definition of hate speech, criminalising speech the Constitution sees as protected. The Bill’s definition of hate speech is also broader than the Equality Act’s civil law definition of (civil) hate speech. This will make it easier to be found guilty of a criminal offence and sent to jail for up to five years than to be ordered to e.g. apologise under the Equality Act. Vague and ambiguous: The Bill’s different elements for the crime of hate speech are either undefined (e.g. hate) or vague and/or ambiguous (e.g. social cohesion). The Bill also contravenes the Constitution’s founding value of the rule of the law (section 1(c)), because it fails to define the essential element of hate. The result is that citizens are unable to know beforehand whether they are committing a crime or not. OTHER CONCERNS ABOUT THE BILL: The Bill fails to incorporate the United Nations’ Rabat Plan of Action threshold test (the requirements used to determine culpability for criminal hate speech). Thus it will cause South Africa to break its international law obligations and commitments to: uphold freedom of expression and impose criminal sanctions for hate speech only as a last resort measure in strictly justifiable circumstances. Thank you | No I do not |
2024-04-22 18:48:23 +02:00 | Nelisiwe | No I do not | All of the above | This is against our faith and it's an insult to us as SA,what is it that you want to feed our children,what kind of a nation it's going to build,come n don't sign this we are being set up here | No I do not |
2024-04-10 08:38:31 +02:00 | Musa | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2024-04-06 14:00:47 +02:00 | Francina | Not fully | All of the above | No I do not | |
2024-04-06 10:45:40 +02:00 | Umi | No I do not | All of the above | My religious beliefs do not permit such stuff I will teach my own children I don’t want others passing their beliefs on these young minds | Yes I do |
2024-04-04 19:28:35 +02:00 | Miche | No I do not | All of the above | No I do not | |
2024-04-03 12:55:52 +02:00 | George | No I do not | The Bill is unnecessary | Mhaka leyi yi ta onhela rixaka na ku onhela tiko hinkwaro eka vumundzuku bya rona . Xaniseko wu tava lowu kulu eka tiko hinkwaro. | No I do not |
2024-03-22 10:04:49 +02:00 | Jutta | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do |