Johannesburg – The amendments to the Sexual Offences Act that made it illegal for people between 12 and 16 to kiss, fondle or have sex were introduced because other methods of preventing harmful teenage intimacy had failed.

This was the argument of advocate Vincent Maleka at the Constitutional Court on Thursday regarding an application by the Teddy Bear Clinic and the Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect to scrap the two amendments to the act, which they believe are unconstitutional.
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