*Correction, Date: 20 January 2015* On 20 January 2015 at 13:10, VC <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > *SACP Statement 5 July 2011* > > > > > > *Constitutional Court Decision on the Right of the DA to Circulate > Offensive Lies* > > > > > > With respect to the dignity of a body which forms an important part of the > democratic dispensation, which we fearlessly fought for against a > recalcitrant racist apartheid regime, the South African Communist Party > registers in the strongest possible terms its disagreement with the > majority decision of the Constitutional Court, over the offensive > and untrue SMS sent by the racist DA to its supporters. > > > > The Constitutional Court lost an opportunity to educate the South African > population about a number of Constitutional principles. These principles > include but not limited to the following: > > > > • That all rights have limitations, this is equally enshrined in our > bill of rights. > > > > • Human dignity is at the core of human rights, for which we dedicated > our entire struggle for the dignity of the racially oppressed African > people and all South Africans. Freedom of expression is human right too, > which equally must be subjected to a limitation. Therefore, freedom of > expression must be tempered with the concept of human dignity at all the > time. > > > > The majority court decision reinforces the idea that any opinion may be > publicly expressed regardless of the truth or its intended harm, in which > case goes against the grain of our constitution. It now prepares the ground > for a culture of insults to be the norm in our body politic. We reiterate > that the judges are wrong in this regard. > > > > > > *Issued by the SACP* > > > > *Consult Solly Mapaila, 082 886 5970 * > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 11042 (20150120) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > -- > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] > . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail > to this address (repeat): [email protected] . > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Communist University:* *CU Downloads*: *sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/ <https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/>* *E-mail forums*: *CU <https://groups.google.com/group/communist-university>*; *YCLSA <https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum>*; *CU-Africa <https://groups.google.com/group/CUAfrica>*; *SADTU <https://groups.google.com/group/sadtu-political-education-forum>* *Blog*s: *CU <http://domza.blogspot.com/>*; *YCLSA <http://wftu-yclsa-cu-jhb.blogspot.com/>*; *CU-Africa <http://cuafrica.blogspot.com/>*; *SADTU <http://sadtu-pol-ed.blogspot.com/>* *Moderator*: *[email protected] <[email protected]>* -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
