In this end-of-year blog, we review Cause for Justice’s (CFJ) efforts and impact in the Sexual Exploitation arena during 2018.

A majority of the political parties represented in the National Assembly adopted the Civil Union Amendment Bill on 6 December 2018, with only the ACDP, AIC and NFP opposing it.

On Thursday 18 October 2018, Cause for Justice (CFJ) hosted a pilot #ParentTalk on The Unspoken Epidemic of Children and Pornography at a local primary school in Stellenbosch.

UNISA’s Bureau of Market Research, held its bi-annual Youth Research Unit conference on 20 and 21 September 2018 in Pretoria. This year’s topic: the online and offline sexual exploitation of children in South Africa.

Recently, Cause for Justice Executive Director, Ryan Smit, met with officials of the Department of Basic Education to engage on concerns regarding its Draft National Policy on the Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy.

Cause for Justice Executive Director, Ryan Smit, had the privilege to visit Washington DC from 2 to 12 April 2018 as part of the scoping phase of a new initiative to educate and empower South African individuals, families and communities to effectively combat the scourge of pornography and to eradicate it from our society.