WATCH: Home Affairs bans anti-gay pastor from SA

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has announced that anti-gay American pastor Steven Anderson will not be granted a visa to visit South Africa.

''Mr Steven Anderson and members and/or associates of his church are prohibited from entering the Republic of South Africa,'' Gigaba announced in Parliament on Tuesday morning.

The Department of Home Affairs Department has previously promised to act if Anderson 'spews hate speech' on South African soil, with Minister Gigaba saying at the time that the department had no legal standing to stop him from entering the country.

Provisions of the immigration act only applied where someone had committed a crime locally or internationally.