by AfriForum | Apr 29, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum in a letter late last night to the Ministers of Health, International Relations and Cooperation, as well as the Police, demanded that a family who are currently being detained in a COVID-19 quarantine camp in Groblersdal, are...
by AfriForum | Apr 29, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum directed a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa today in which the organisation proposes measures to relax the lockdown. AfriForum says in its letter that the relaxation of the lockdown – announced by Ramaphosa on 23 April – is...
by AfriForum | Apr 28, 2020 | Community Affairs Media statements, Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum’s Jeffreys Bay branch received a potato donation of 28 tonnes from the Vaalharts irrigation scheme near Christiana. The donation will be used to combat the need for food in the area as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic....
by AfriForum | Apr 28, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Intercultural cooperation, Media statements
AfriForum and the Vulamehlo Kusile Organisation (VUKO) are empowering the Ndebele community to fight COVID-19 by creating and distributing IsiNdebele instructions to community members to make homemade washable masks. The instructions will be distributed, and the...
by AfriForum | Apr 28, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements
AfriForum welcomes the retraction of the threat by Sihle Zikalala, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, that people who test positive for COVID-19 will be forced into quarantine camps regardless of whether they are effectively self-isolating. The retraction over the past weekend...
by AfriForum | Apr 28, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Media statements, Corruption Media statements
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today reserved judgement in AfriForum and Solidarity’s urgent review application against the Department of Tourism’s use of race as a benchmark for the awarding of relief to tourism enterprises. Judge Jody Kollapen has...
