by AfriForum | May 29, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum is still concerned over the ongoing plan by the Gauteng Department of Education, in which the department plans to deploy unemployed youths – between the ages of 18 and 35 – to schools in Gauteng. According to a media conference today, the brigades will have...
by AfriForum | May 29, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements, Investigation and trauma unit Media statements
The COVID-19 task team – established by the civil rights organisation AfriForum, the family farming network Saai and Solidarity Helping Hand – today delivered donations at the Sonstraaltjie Nursery School in Brits, as well as 2 tonnes dogfood donated by Top Tail and...
by AfriForum | May 28, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements
AfriForum calls on Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs, to recall the irrational regulations announced for risk level 3. For example, the Tshwane and Ekurhuleni metros are classified as hotspots, while Tshwane...
by AfriForum | May 28, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum today served a lawyer’s letter on the Minister of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, in which the Minister is informed that the organisation will take further legal action if the smoking...
by AfriForum | May 26, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements, Research Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum wrote a letter to Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister of Health today, calling for the disclosure of COVID-19 information, including the protocol being followed for reporting a death as a COVID-19 death. This resulted from limited...
by AfriForum | May 26, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements, International liaison Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum will continue with steps, including legal action, to ensure that South Africans who are currently stranded abroad or are in quarantine facilities after returning from abroad to South Africa will not be exposed to such stressful...