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Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Act, 2002 (Act No. 19 of 2002)

Part 7 : Community Councils

36. Recommendation of establishment of community councils

 

1) Persons belonging to a cultural, religious or linguistic community may form, join and maintain cultural, religious and linguistic associations and other organs of civil society as envisaged in section 31 of the Constitution.

 

2) The Commission may recommend to a community, which is not organised, to initiate and establish a community council at a provincial or national level if the establishment of such a council would be conducive to-
a) the promotion and protection of the rights of such a community; and
b) the promotion and development of peace, friendship, humanity, tolerance and national unity among and within the different communities in South Africa.