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Open Letter to Parliament – Stop the BELA Bill
The situation is critical. Our country’s youth, once full of hope and ambition, are now facing grave challenges. They are losing their lives to drugs, disease, and hunger on the streets. Their aspirations of becoming educators, legal professionals, medical doctors, or nurses have been crushed.
Development of an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit due to dagga use: a population-based cohort study
The study looked at whether using dagga is linked to seeking medical help for anxiety. Researchers checked health records from Ontario, Canada, between 2008 and 2019. They focused on people who hadn’t gone to the doctor for anxiety before and compared those who went to the emergency room (ER) for dagga-related reasons to those who … Read more
BELA BILL Public Hearings Dates 2024
Provincial hearings already completed: KZN, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West.
CYPSA SUBMISSION TO NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES: COMMENTS ON CANNABIS FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES BILL
We have grave reservations about the Bill itself, as well as specific provisions of the Bill, despite further amendments having recently been made to the Bill.
BELA Bill – CYPSA’s Written Submission and Points of Concern
Mr E M Nchabeleng MP Chairperson: Select Committee Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture (NationalCouncil of Provinces) For attention: MsNoluthando Skaka Per email: [email protected] Dear Mr E M Nchabeleng MP Comments on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill [B 2B-2022] (S76) 1.We refer to the invitation for written submissions on the Basic … Read more
How Raffiq Was Helped
I was born in Durban where I was raised by a single mother in a Muslim home. I went through high school as a quiet, reserved boy with low self-confidence. Every afternoon I was sent to Islamic classes to learn and memorize Arabic, with no understanding of what exactly it was that I was memorizing. … Read more
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Umphakathi Okhathazekile (the Concerned Young People of South Africa) is a non-profit organisation which was started by concerned people of South Africa in 2009 and then registered as an NPO in 2010.
The moral decay in our communities caused such great distress to us that we could not keep silent any longer. We have united in taking a stand against the devastation caused by drugs, immorality, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, crime, prostitution, pornography and abuse, amongst other evils, in all their forms.
God Repays
Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you. (Prov 20:22)
To fight a spiritual battle is to ascend to God’s throne through prayer. The righteous man availeth much through prayer. It is through prayer that every stronghold of the evil one can be torn down and every pretence that sets itself up against the Holy One. The moment we decend into physical strife, we lose our peace and spiritual authority. Let us wait on God in prayer… He has promised… He will save.