This End Blasphemy Laws Project page, last updated 18 June 2020, documents South Africa's surviving common-law offense of blasphemy, defined as unlawfully and intentionally acting in contempt of God, and its near total disuse: the last recorded conviction was in 1968, of a student newspaper editor, who received only a caution. It notes the offense's constitutional validity under South Africa's post-1994 bill of rights, which protects expression and bars religious discrimination, has never been tested in court.
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A campaigning coalition's country page, curated by legal researchers and cross-referenced against the actual common-law offense and its enforcement history, more detailed than an encyclopedia relay but an advocacy organization's own compilation rather than a primary legal or government text, hence the middle tier. Citation
PublisherEnd Blasphemy Laws Coalition (Humanists International and partner organizations)
URLhttps://end-blasphemy-laws.org/countries/africa-sub-saharan/south-africa/
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