by AfriForum | Nov 9, 2020 | Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum welcomed the Department of Basic Education’s announcement that matric learners who tested positive or display symptoms of COVID-19, will be allowed to write the final matric exams. This follows after the department initially announced that matrics with...
by AfriForum | Nov 9, 2020 | Environmental affairs Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum concluded its annual arbor month on 6 November by planting 50 almond trees (Prunus dulcis) at the Maranata Care Centre outside Pretoria. AfriForum planted more than 3 300 trees in September and October this year. Since the project’s start in 2011, the civil...
by AfriForum | Nov 9, 2020 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit is currently supporting a complainant in a case after his complaint was within 8 minutes labelled as “false” by the Brooklyn police station, after which the detective branch closed the complaint. The unit also laid a service...
by AfriForum | Nov 5, 2020 | Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum says that the South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) cannot be trusted to facilitate talks between communities in South Africa, because the HRC promotes double standards and shrugs its shoulders when violence against...
by AfriForum | Nov 4, 2020 | Media statements
AfriForum continued its court case against Black First Land First’s Andile Mngxitama today in the Equality Court. This case relates to Mngxitama’s comments in 2018 where he said that BLF intends to kill five white people for every black person who dies in...
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...
