(ii) concern was expressed, inter alia by the National Professional Teachers Association of South Africa, that subsection (2) was both too vague and too restrictive; and
(iii) various Muslim organizations objected to the requirement that legislation enacted in terms of subsection (3) be consistent with the Bill of Rights, on the basis that Muslims regard their personal law as divine, binding and absolute and this law cannot be altered or subjected to any national law. A clause along the lines of IC s 14(3) was proposed.
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