Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has announced government’s final decision on whether anti-gay American pastor Steven Anderson will be granted a visa to visit South Africa.
The South African government have officially barred the openly homophobic American preacher from traveling to the country!
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Minister Gigaba has said that Immigration act of 2002 prohibits admission of foreigners likely to promote hate speech. Steven Anderson and all his associates are prohibited from entering South Africa as LGBTI lives matter and hate speech will not be allowed.
Min Gigaba: #StevenAnderson will be advised that he is prohibited from entering #RSA #LGBTIMatters
— HomeAffairsSA (@HomeAffairsSA) September 13, 2016
Min Gigaba: #StevenAnderson had a delegation 17 people who have also been prohibited from entering #RSA. #LGBTIMatters
— HomeAffairsSA (@HomeAffairsSA) September 13, 2016
The decision by Gigaba sends a clear message to the world that South Africa will not encourage hate, bigotry and intolerance in our land! He also believes that the SAHR Commission and the Equality Court should take issue with the people who invited the hateful preacher.
Gigaba said the LGBTI community faces daily atrocities for defining their identity. Home Affairs says Anderson won’t be allowed to enter South Africa in terms of the Immigration Act.
South Africans from all walks of life, including the very church he belongs to, all stood together against the hateful preacher from America who has been planning a “soul winning” mission to the country.
Steven L. Anderson, the pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, is due to travel to South Africa for what he describes as a “soul-winning marathon” on September 18, billed for Johannesburg.
Anderson became well known and dubbed the “anti-gay preacher” after previously celebrating the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a known gay nightclub in June. Fifty people were shot dead by Omar Mateen at the nightclub, making it the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
He said in a video that the “good news” was that there was “50 less pedophiles in the world” but that the “bad news” was that the tragedy would be used to push for “gun control, whereby law-abiding, normal Americans are not going to be allowed to have guns for self-defense.”
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