# Share

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/draft-meat-safety-act/share/
- Published: 2020-04-05T11:48:00+02:00
- Author: dearSA

### Well done! Mass participation is essential to influence this policy – please help this reach more people.

click the social buttons below to share the Meat Safety participation campaign.

[whatsapp url=”https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/draft-meat-safety-act/” title=”*Have
your say on the draft amendment to the Meat Safety Act.* This bill allows for the
slaughter, consumption, export and sale of many threatened species in South Africa
including rhino, elephant, giraffe, birds, reptiles and fish.  *CLICK THE LINK TO
HAVE YOUR SAY AND THEN SHARE TO ALL YOUR GROUPS*”]

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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[ Share by email](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/newsletter/draft-meat-safety-act-2/)

![DearSA Meat Safety Act](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/
04/20191104/meat-safety-Act.jpg "meat-safety-Act")

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## ENABLING YOU TO SHAPE GOVERNMENT POLICY

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected platform which enables
the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals. We’ve 
run many successful campaigns over the past 18 months and have amassed a considerably
large active participant database of close on 700,000 individuals across the country
and beyond.

**We do not run petitions.** We run legally recognised public participation processes
which allow citizens to co-form policy at all levels of governance. Whereas petitions,
even if they contain thousands of signatures, are considered as a single submission
by government, our process ensures that each comment made through DearSA is recognised
and counted as an individual submission by government.

Furthermore, we keep an accurate record of all participation and produce a publicly
available report at the end of each project. This report forms the foundation of
a sound legal case should the necessity to challenge the decision arise.

Participation costs you NOTHING, and is so easy and quick to through DearSA that
you really have no excuse not to help shape policy BEFORE it becomes law. Legally
challenging implemented law is costly and rarely successful. Prevention is better
than cure.

Participation in decision-making processes means a possibility for citizens, civil
society organisations and other interested parties to influence the development 
of policies and laws which affect them. We’ve made it easy for you as a responsible
citizen of South Africa, to influence government decisions before they are made.

## Participative Democracy is encouraged through the PAJA – the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, and enshrined in our Constitution.

Every decision the government make must be published in a Government Gazette and
must include evidence of public participation. If the public do not participate 
by objecting or agreeing, their non-participation is deemed as a non-objection, 
a tacit agreement.

Each comment from any of our web sites is immediately sent as a separate email to
the relevant government representative designated to each project.

**We do not sell your info on to anyone and we do not charge for what we do**.