by AfriForum | Mar 3, 2021 | Media statements, Heritage and culture Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum today opened the AfriForum Teater, a new theatre on the premises previously occupied by the Brooklyn Theatre. This 380-seat theatre is situated in the Greenlyn Village Centre in Menlo Park, Pretoria. A new restaurant, PRONK,...
by AfriForum | Nov 26, 2020 | Media statements, Heritage and culture Media statements
AfriForum is in favour of communities getting to know and appreciate their history better, but questions the intended plan of the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, to make History a compulsory school subject. According to Alana Bailey, AfriForum’s...
by AfriForum | Sep 23, 2020 | Media statements, Heritage and culture Media statements
On the eve of Heritage Day, AfriForum calls on communities to accept responsibility for the conservation and expansion of their own heritage. According to Alana Bailey, AfriForum’s Head of Cultural Affairs, several debates currently rage worldwide about the meaning of...
by AfriForum | Sep 4, 2020 | Media statements, Heritage and culture Media statements
AfriForum opposes the announcement by Nathi Mthethewa, Minister of Arts and Culture, that government would be opening so-called theme parks to house monuments, symbols and statues of the past. According to the SABC, the Minister announced during a sitting of the...
by AfriForum | Aug 7, 2020 | Media statements, Heritage and culture Media statements
AfriForum and representatives of the Voortrekker Monument Draf & Stap Klub presented the Voortrekker Monument with a donation of R25 000 this morning. This amount is the proceeds of the 2020 AfriForum Springbok Vasbyt Road Race organised by the club and sponsored...
by AfriForum | Jun 8, 2020 | Cultural Affairs, Heritage and culture Media statements, AfriForum Youth Media statements
AfriForum Youth welcomes the statue of President MT Steyn being moved from the Bloemfontein campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) to the War Museum of the Boer Republics because of this university’s policy of decolonisation and transformation. The...
