3rd Degree E-mail campaign
The recent decision by the Johannesburg High Court in South Africa to grant the 15 year old daughter of Jehovah’s Witness parents a life saving blood transfusion after they objected has sparked a major debate. The issue has been featured on SABC news and also discussed on SAFM Radio’s After Eight Debate.
No doubt this is nothing new as the blood issue constantly puts the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the spotlight because of their refusal to accept this life-saving medical procedure. This has been the third time in an 18 month period that the courts have stepped in here in South Africa to save children’s lives. It certainly seems that the arguments put forward by the Jehovah’s Witnesses to defend their dogma, do not hold much weight any more.
It is with this story in mind that a group of former JWs here in South Africa we have decided that this issue should be the focus of a television expose over here. We have singled out a current affairs program called 3rd Degree which deals with stories like this. We feel that it is time that the blood issue, together with the paedophile cover-ups, should be brought to the fore.
In that regard we have decided to bombard the producers of the show with an e-mail campaign which we hope will get them to do an expose. That is why we would like you to send a little e-mail to the producers as well just to give the campaign a bit more clout. I know of paedophiles over here that are in good standing and continue to go door to door with free access to kids in the congregations.
The e-mail should be sent to info@etv.co.za. Your contribution to this campaign will be highly appreciated.
I am a zimbabwean from Harare and I came to S.A to find work. I started working for a company called area-sat in capetown in 2007. I had not yet aquired a S.A I.D or Tax registration no. and worked there for the duration of 2yrs. In that 2years I earned + – R 4000 pm and was charged TAX and Whilest working there I still Did not have any paperwork or documents pertaining to tax. registry untill recently and have no rights to that lost money due to the fact that I had no tax number. I would like to bring this to your attention as there are many zimbabweans that are still under employed by them.