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The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs addressed the Committee, congratulating both the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Film and Publications Board (FPB) on their performance.

The production, sale and circulation of child pornography is increasing at a worrying rate.

South African courts are battling to comprehend the magnitude of child pornography even though the country has specific anti-pornography legislation.

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and its Films and Publication Board (FPB) will tomorrow boost the fight against child abuse by introducing an anti-child pornography Web site.

The Films and Publication Board in partnership with the Department of Home Affairs invites members of the media to the launch of the Anti-Child Pornography website.

Two-thirds of high school pupils surveyed in major cities have watched at least one pornographic film, according to a report released by the Department of Home Affairs and the Films and Publications Board (FPB) on Tuesday.

SA is behind the legislative and technology curve in protecting children from pornography, three reports say.

Organisation calls for international partnerships to be mobilised to take up the challenge.

I would like to respond to the letter by Charl van Wyk in The Herald of September 2 (“Church should be free to associate with whom it wants”). It is amazing that Jesus, our example, never had a cruel word to say about gay people, but some of today‘s Christians think they are better than Christ himself.

A former priest has been charged with 93 child sex offences stemming from an alleged paedophile ring at a Catholic boy's school, police said on Wednesday.

Police in Greece have arrested nine men suspected of browsing child porn over the internet in an international probe sparked by a tip-off from Brazil, the police department said on Wednesday.

Six hundred Germans are involved in an Internet paedophile network uncovered in Switzerland, where four men have already been arrested in connection with the affair, judicial authorities said on Wednesday.

3-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on 3 May 2007 while on vacation in Portugal with her family.