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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message | template |
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2026-03-30 11:21:08 +02:00 | Neil | No I do not | Constitutionality of the Bill | Yes I do | |
2026-03-23 18:48:51 +02:00 | Penny | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-21 07:46:23 +02:00 | Ray | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-20 09:34:03 +02:00 | Pieter | No I do not | Constitutionality of the Bill | Yes I do | |
2026-03-20 08:13:51 +02:00 | ROBERT | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-19 20:46:20 +02:00 | Hein | No I do not | All of the above | I personally think this is just another loose brick in a wobbling wall which is bound to topple over sooner than later. | No I do not |
2026-03-19 20:34:18 +02:00 | Cecile | No I do not | All of the above | This is not the South Africa that Nelson Mandela envisaged. | Yes I do |
2026-03-19 14:10:22 +02:00 | Ada | No I do not | All of the above | This is an indirect attack on Christianity. The Hate Speech Bill determines that we are not allowed to support Israel. (Refer the ICJ case by SA against Israel). Israels’s God is my God. If I do not support Israel, then it means I must reject Judaism and Christianity WHICH I WILL NOT DO! This is a sly move on the part of the ANC to Islamise South Africa with the eventual aim of outlawing Christianity. The ANC is compromised by certain Islamic terrorist backed countries because of their support during the Apartheid struggle. Leave our Constitution and Christianity alone! This is supposed to be a Democratic South Africa. | Yes I do |
2026-03-19 08:06:48 +02:00 | Shannon | Not fully | Other | Yes I do | |
2026-03-18 18:12:07 +02:00 | Thasneem | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-18 09:22:36 +02:00 | Ray | No I do not | The Bill is vague and ambiguous | Yes I do | |
2026-03-18 08:29:04 +02:00 | Mornè | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-18 08:28:29 +02:00 | Eberhardt | No I do not | The Bill is vague and ambiguous | No I do not | |
2026-03-17 14:54:27 +02:00 | David | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-17 09:18:03 +02:00 | Kyle | No I do not | The broad definition of hate speech | Yes I do | |
2026-03-17 08:47:16 +02:00 | Richard | No I do not | All of the above | Hate speech is the biggest curse in South Africa and everybody that thinks they can say and act as they feel toward others should face the might of the law and that goes for politicians and the general public! | No I do not |
2026-03-17 08:32:32 +02:00 | Matthea | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-17 06:51:02 +02:00 | albert | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-03-11 10:59:15 +02:00 | Michael | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-02-25 21:08:52 +02:00 | Karl | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-02-04 14:09:38 +02:00 | Alice | No I do not | All of the above | the hate speech bill is unfortunately not being applied fairly across all citizens in SA anyway so go and make it subject to something as airy-fairy as feelings is leaving it wide open for potentially unfair manipulation by unscrupulous individuals with a vendetta against the alleged offender. | No I do not |
2026-01-31 06:31:20 +02:00 | Malcolm | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-01-14 16:39:45 +02:00 | John | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2026-01-11 22:29:58 +02:00 | Peter John | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do | |
2025-12-13 16:37:54 +02:00 | Mark | No I do not | The Bill is vague and ambiguous | 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. | No I do not |
2025-12-10 06:59:52 +02:00 | Madeleine | No I do not | Constitutionality of the Bill | Yes I do | |
2025-12-09 14:28:52 +02:00 | Michen | No I do not | All of the above | No I do not | |
2025-12-03 09:05:37 +02:00 | C | No I do not | All of the above | Communist ideology that seeks to control free speech. RSA is a democratic country that doesn't need communist control through government over reach. | No I do not |
2025-12-01 11:40:15 +02:00 | Henriëtta | No I do not | All of the above | Introduced in Parliament in 2018, the Bill marks a significant step towards the protection of all people in South Africa against hate crimes and hate speech, particularly those based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any other form of discrimination.In Section 4 of the Bill, hate speech is defined as the intentional publishing or communicating of anything that can incite harm or promote hate based on grounds, including, among others, age, sexual orientation and race. The Bill also provides for penalties such as fines, imprisonment, or both for those who are convicted of the offences. | No I do not |
2025-11-29 19:09:50 +02:00 | Armand | No I do not | All of the above | Yes I do |