The study reported in this paper centred on the question whether the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 had any effect on the status of religion / religious education in South Africa. Although South Africa is geographically far removed from Eastern Europe, the socio-political situation in South Africa was deeply affected by the fall of the Wall, particularly by the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. One of the upshots of the socio-political reform in South Africa after 1994 was that religion / religious education was relegated away from the public school to the private sphere of the parental home and religious institutions. This policy shift, however, might have had negative effects on the general social morality of South Africans. [For the complete Volume 17 proceedings, see ED596826.]