by AfriForum | Dec 3, 2019 | Media statements
During a media conference in Centurion today, AfriForum gave reasons why the civil rights organisation is appealing the ruling by the Equality Court that the display of the 1928 flag (the old South African flag) is hate speech. The different parties’ court documents...
by AfriForum | Dec 2, 2019 | Media statements
AfriForum today wrote a letter to Lindiwe Sisulu, the minister of human settlements, and the Estate Agency Affairs Board, demanding the scrapping of the board’s proposed resolution to unfairly benefit “previously disadvantaged individuals”. The civil rights...
by AfriForum | Dec 2, 2019 | Community Affairs Media statements, Media statements
As part of AfriForum’s #YourTown campaign, the civil rights organisation’s Helderbergkom branch launched a clean-up action of the green strip alongside the Summervale Retirement Village in Gordon’s Bay this past week. The green strip, which stretches from Lemoenboom...
by AfriForum | Nov 29, 2019 | Environmental affairs Media statements
AfriForum believes that Lindiwe Sisulu, minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, should first and foremost tackle the mismanagement problems inside the department and create a culture of accountability, before implementing the water master plan they...
by AfriForum | Nov 29, 2019 | Environmental affairs Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum today sent a letter to the Tshwane Metro regarding the quality of Hammanskraal’s drinking water and requested the Metro to make use of alternative resources to supply clean drinking water to the residents until the problem has been solved. This follows after...
by AfriForum | Nov 28, 2019 | Media statements, International liaison Media statements, Language Media statements
Representatives of the civil rights organization AfriForum have been attending the twelfth session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva, Switzerland, since this morning. The theme of this year’s event is “Education, language and the human rights of...
