After Rev Bougardt breached the 2014 Order, a further order was handed down on 18 May 2018 (the 2018 order).  The Equality Court declared Rev Bougardt to be in contempt of the 2014 order and ordered that he be committed to prison for a period of 30 days.  The committal was suspended until May 2023 on condition that he did not again breach the 2014 order, failing which he would be committed to prison.

As Rev Bougardt continued making inflammatory statements against gay and lesbian people (as well as the wider LGBTQIA+ community), in October 2019, the SAHRC brought an application for his committal in terms of the 2018 order. The SAHRC now seeks that Rev Bougardt either be committed to prison for a period of 30 days for his continued violations against the LGBTQIA+ community, alternatively that his committal be suspended for a further period of 3 years, provided he does not continue to make further inflammatory statements against the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Issued by the South African Human Rights Commission

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