by AfriForum | Feb 1, 2021 | Media statements, Local Government Affairs Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum wrote to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), requesting that this year’s local elections not be postponed until after 2021. This follows the EFF’s request for the elections to be postponed until 2024. Morné Mostert,...
by AfriForum | Jan 25, 2021 | Community Affairs Media statements, Media statements, Local Government Affairs Media statements
The AfriForum branch in Rustenburg welcomes the Rustenburg Local Municipality’s action plan for the improvement of power supply to the rural areas of the south eastern environs of the town (the R24 area). This follows AfriForum’s continuous pressure on the...
by AfriForum | Nov 4, 2020 | Media statements, Local Government Affairs Media statements
Eskom confirmed in a letter to AfriForum dated 4 November 2020 that it retracted a decision to cut the Matlosana Municipality’s electricity. This follows AfriForum’s letter to Eskom as well the Municipality on 30 October in which the civil rights organisation...
by AfriForum | Oct 1, 2020 | Media statements, Local Government Affairs Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum was in the Northern Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today on an urgent basis to put aside the Tshwane Metro’s budget approved by Mpho Nawa, administrator of the Tshwane Metro. Judge Portia Phahlane found that the matter was...
by AfriForum | Sep 9, 2020 | Media statements, Local Government Affairs Media statements
The appointment of Mpho Nawa as Chief Administrator of the Tshwane Metro led to the unlawful approval of a budget that leaves thousands of Pretoria residents perplexed. AfriForum has already served court papers to have the budget decision set aside, as well as to...
by AfriForum | Aug 19, 2020 | Media statements, Local Government Affairs Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum, as well as Eskom and the Lekwa Local Municipality in Standerton will possibly clash in court over the implementation of additional load shedding due to the Municipality’s outstanding account. The power giant currently not only...
