Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba's announcement that 'hate' pastor, Steven Anderson, had been refused a visa was consistent with the country's Immigration Act prohibiting foreigners who are "likely to promote hate speech or advocate social violence".
In announcing his decision the minister predicated it on South Africa having . . ."to work towards reaching its constitutional goals". A lofty sentiment, but one that flies in the face of the government's refusal of a visa to the Dalai Lama, a man of peace, and allowing Omar Al-Bashir, wanted for mass killing, rape and pillage, to enter and depart notwithstanding a court order preventing his departure.
No matter how principled Gigaba's decision in denying a visa to Anderson was, decisions insofar as the Dalai Lama and Al-Bashir were concerned, will not disembowel the stink of hypocrisy and unlawfulness generated by Gigaba's department and other organs of the state. By doing so, they rode roughshod over the constitution.
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