by AfriForum | Mar 25, 2020 | Media statements, Corruption Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum demanded in a letter to Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, Minister of Tourism today that the proposed conditions for relief aimed at companies in the tourism sector, based on race, age, disabilities and gender, be scrapped. This follows...
by AfriForum | Mar 24, 2020 | In the community, Media statements, Corruption Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum today placed the Minister and the Department of Small Business Development on terms to provide a written undertaking that race would in no way play any role in the provision of aid to businesses that apply to government for...
by AfriForum | Mar 24, 2020 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
Thandi Modise, Speaker of the National Assembly, failed to appear in the Potchefstroom Regional Court on charges of animal abuse against her. This follows AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit’s announcement last year that it would be privately prosecuting Modise on...
by AfriForum | Mar 24, 2020 | Media statements
AfriForum condemns the government’s policy to provide financial relief to only black-owned businesses that are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter of demand sent to the Department of Small Business Development last night, AfriForum has already demanded that...
by AfriForum | Mar 17, 2020 | Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum has written to pres. Cyril Ramaphosa and the Reserve Bank to suggest practical steps to curb the negative impact that measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 could have on the economy. AfriForum earlier said the organisation...
by AfriForum | Mar 17, 2020 | Media statements, Neighbourhood watches Media statements
AfriForum’s neighbourhood watches in Vanderbijlpark, Roodepoort, Krugersdorp, Fochville and Randfontein on 14 and 15 March 2020 executed a mass patrol in their respective areas in cooperation with the SAPS, the local CPF’s, community members, various security...
