by AfriForum | Feb 4, 2021 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
AfriForum announced at a media conference today that its Private Prosecution Unit had laid service charges with Lt Gen. Khehla John Sitole, national Police Commissioner, against police officers who unlawfully and irrationally confiscated alcohol worth thousands of...
by AfriForum | Jan 27, 2021 | Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum urges Panyaza Lesufi, Gauteng MEC for Education, to resign after his statement that he was shocked by the content of a report that indicates that the Gauteng Department of Education had spent more than R431 million on the sanitation and disinfection of...
by AfriForum | Jan 27, 2021 | Media statements, AfriForum Youth Media statements
AfriForum Youth approached the legal firm Hurter Spies Inc. after 5 000 tertiary students’ NSFAS funding for the 2020 academic year was cancelled. AfriForum Youth will represent the nearly 100 students that contacted the organisation for this reason in court on...
by AfriForum | Jan 26, 2021 | Media statements, Farm murders Media statements
AfriForum proposed ten practical steps at a governmental workshop on rural and urban safety that will effectively combat the scourge of farm murders. Ernst Roets, Head of Policy and Action at AfriForum, participated virtually to present AfriForum’s perspective on and...
by AfriForum | Jan 26, 2021 | Opinions
By Eugene Brink Max du Preez’s recent recantation in Vrye Weekblad on the necessity of the parallel state is patently late, but at least not half-hearted. The piece is imbibed with a fervent plea for people to get involved and plug the gaps that government cannot...