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Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism

Roundtable Series - Number 3

This KAS event, co-hosted by the Centre for Unity in Diversity focuses on the question how to balance Religion, Custom and the Constitution in modern South Africa.
September 14, 2017 09h30 - 13h00 o'clock

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The aim of the seminar was to discuss the CRL Rights' Commission's Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of People's belief System's Report and interrogate the role of religious freedom and customary practice within a constitutional democracy.

Programe

09h30 - 10h00 Registration, Tea\Coffee

10h00 - 10h10 Welcome and Introduction: Ms Zohra Dawood: Director, Centre for Unity in Diversity

10h10 - 10h20 Adress on behalf of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: Ms Nancy Msibi: Representative, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

10h25 - 10h55 Speaker: Ms Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva: Chairperson, Commission for the Promotion and protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguastic Communities.

10h55 - 11h15 Respondent: Prof Pieter Coertzen: Extraordinary Professor in Comparative Church Law at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Stellenbosch

11h15 - 12h15 Q&A Session with audience

12h15 - 13h00 Lunch

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Date and time

September 14, 2017
09h30 - 13h00 o'clock
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Venue

CRL Rights Commission, Ground Floor, Forum 4, Braampark Office Park, 33 Hoofd Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

Speakers

  • Ms Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva
    • Chairperson of the Commission for thePromotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural
      • Religious andLinguistic Communities

        Publication

        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism: Roundtable Series - Number 3
        Sep 21, 2017
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        Balancin religion custom and constitutionalism
        Deputy Chairperson of CRL Commission Luka Mosoma, Nancy Msibi, Chairperson of CRL Commission Ms Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva, Zohra Dawood, Director, Centre for Unity in Diversity,Pieter Coertzen, Adv Kevin Malunga, Deputy Public Protector.
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism
        Balancing Religion, Custom and Constitutionalism

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        Centre for Unity in Diversity (CUD)
        CRL Rights Commission

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        Foundation Office South Africa