CHAPTER 2
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMISSION
2.1.
The following appeared in Government Gazette No. 2351 of the 11th
April, 1969 –
"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO
SCIENTOLOGY
It is hereby notified for general information that the State President has been pleased to appoint a Commission of Enquiry as follows:—
COMMISSION
BY THE STATE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
To:
PIETER EDUARD BOSMAN.
GERHARDUS JOHANNES DAVIDTZ.
GUY ABERCROMBUS ELLIOTT.
GERHARDUS PETRUS CHRISTIAN KOTZE.
ALICE MARGARET GERTRUDE MAYTOM.
LETTIE VAN ZYL PRETORIUS.
HENDRIK LAMBERTUS SWANEPOEL.
IZAK JOHANNES JACOBUS VAN ROOYEN.
ADOLF JOHANNES VAN WYK.
Greetings:
Whereas I deem it expedient to appoint a Commission to enquire into and submit recommendations on the matter mentioned hereinafter;
Now, therefore, reposing great trust in your knowledge, judgement and ability, I do by these presents authorise and appoint you to be members of a Commission and you, Gerhardus Petrus Christian Kotze, to be Chairman of the Commission, to enquire into and report on —
the aims and objects of Scientology and to determine whether the organisation as such is in a position and capable to achieve such objects;
the methods, processes, practices, techniques and principles of treatment which are applied to achieve the objects envisaged;
the nature and the amount of remuneration which is charged or received by persons who are associated with the practice of this cult;
the manner and methods by which this money is collected;
the type of behavioural deviations and illnesses to which the practitioners give attention;
the manner in which Scientology is advertised;
the possible beneficial or harmful effects of the processes;
the influencing of persons under 16 years and the legal considerations regarding the approval of parents that their children be involved; and
any other aspects concerning Scientology which the Commission may deem necessary.
Given under my Hand the the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town this Twenty-eighth day of March, One thousand Nine hundred and Sixty-nine.
J.J. FOUCKE,
State President.
By Order of the State President-in-Council.
C. DE WET."
"PROCLAMATION
BY THE STATE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
No. 85, 1969
APPLICATION OF THE COMMISSIONS ACT, 1947, TO THE COMMISSION
OF INQUIRY INTO THE CULT KNOWN AS SCIENTOLOGY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Under the powers vested in me by section one of the Commissions Act, 1947 (act 8 of 1947), I hereby declare that the provisions of the said Act shall apply to the Commission of Inquiry into the cult known as Scientology in South Africa, which I have today appointed.