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Date | Tournament | Round | Motion |
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2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 1 | In an ideal feminist world, this house prefers a societal norm of having stay at home dads to a societal norm of having both parents working |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 2 | This house supports a heavy-handed military response to xenophobic violence |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 3 | TH regrets the rise of the certified artist (as certified through official art schools, degrees, or programmes |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 4 | As a black middle-class South African, this house would vote ANC |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 5 | Assuming that technology existed that would allow one to transfer years of their natural life (the time one would live, if not cut down unnaturally by disease or accident |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 6 | This house would not use images of gratuitous violence as means for political mobilisation |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 7 | This house believes that foreign mercenaries, employed by the West, should unionise |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 8 | THBT nearby mens and womens prisons should set up regularly scheduled inter-prison activities, including the provision of private rooms for sexual intercourse. |
2015-05-01 | Cape Town Open | 9 | THW grant independence to [OG picks] |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 1 | In instances where utterances of a minor amount to hate speech, THS the public shaming of the parent rather than the minor. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 2 | THBT developing countries should hold the Catholic church financially liable for the medical expenses of AIDS victims in areas where the church campaigns against condom use. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 3 | As the South African government, THW explicity oppose the use of the word "apartheid" in describing the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 4 | THW, by worker referendum, allow employees to set the salaries of their top executives. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 5 | THW create an age-restricted rating that warns the audience when a film has failed the Bechdel Test. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 6 | THBT gay judges or legal experts who meaningfully contribute to legalizing gay marriage are morally obligated to publicly reveal their sexual orientation. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 7 | THW ban all private campaign contributions and instead implement a voucher system, wherein every citizen of voting age would receive a R600 voucher that can only be used to finance political campaigns of the citizen's choosing. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 8 | THW require universities to write-off the student debt of any student who graduates in good academic standing but is unable to find a job despite actively seeking employment. |
2014-05-09 | Cape Town Open | 9 | THR Americans' recent and unprecedented opposition to military intervention. |