My favourite legal blog is Advocate Pierre de Vos’s Constitutionally Speaking. It’s a goldmine of educated thought expressed simply so that everyone can understand. His latest blog addresses the legality of religion in schools, a topic that recently reared its awkward head in nearby Plettenberg Bay:

“It is not always easy to hold an unpopular or minority view. It is even more difficult to hold a minority view on the emotive subject of religious belief and organised religion. When you happen to be a vulnerable and impressionable child, indoctrinated by parents and subjected to relentless peer pressure, it becomes even more difficult to hold any opinion of your own on the matter. It is for this reason that the right of children not to believe in a specific God or in specific religious dogma, must be jealously protected…”

Read the full blog at ‘Religion in Schools: Time to Decolonise Uur Education?’