by AfriForum | Jul 20, 2021 | Community Affairs Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum published the organisation’s annual landfill site audit report today after landfill sites in the towns/cities in which AfriForum has branches, were audited earlier this year. The report will be discussed with Barbara Creecy, the Minister of Environmental...
by AfriForum | Jul 19, 2021 | Media statements
AfriForum in cooperation with Solidarity Helping Hand have launched an emergency box project to help communities in need after the unrest that occurred in parts of South Africa last week. The two organisations have been inundated with requests for help from inter alia...
by AfriForum | Jul 19, 2021 | Media statements, Neighbourhood watches Media statements
On 17 July 2021 AfriForum’s neighbourhood watch together with the local SAPS carried out a special operation. This operation included roadblocks throughout the town. The roadblock that was held at Atlas Road especially bore fruit when two unlicenced firearms,...
by AfriForum | Jul 19, 2021 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
Solidarity Helping Hand and AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit are currently supporting Sandra de Villiers in the judicial inquest into the death of her brother, Jaco Stols, in 2016 during the Life Esidimeni tragedy. Adv. Phyllis Vorster, Prosecutor at AfriForum’s...
by AfriForum | Jul 16, 2021 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit called its second witness today in the Regional Court in Somerset East in the prosecution of the alleged rapist Andile Memese. The Private Prosecution Unit, headed by Adv. Gerrie Nel, represents the victim, Celeste Gouws. Gouws was...
by AfriForum | Jul 15, 2021 | Media statements, Local Government Affairs Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum wrote a letter to the premier of KwaZulu-Natal today regarding the situation that is currently prevailing in this province and indicated that the current state of affairs justifies the declaration of a disaster area and the...
