by AfriForum | Oct 2, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
AfriForum is of the opinion that the government’s admission that almost 900 farms – which belong to the state and extend over some 700 000 hectares – are underused or not used at all is once again confirmation that government’s more radical land reform in the form of...
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 | Oct 1, 2020 | Community Affairs Media statements, Media statements, Corruption Media statements
AfriForum directed a written enquiry to the Provincial Commissioner of Organised Crime in KwaZulu-Natal to make an enquiry regarding the status of the investigation against a former mayor of Newcastle. This follows after AfriForum in 2016 laid a criminal charge at the...
by AfriForum | Sep 30, 2020 | Intercultural cooperation, Media statements
Supported by AfriForum, the Vulamehlo Kusile Organisation (VUKO) launched a petition campaign for the fair treatment of isiNdebele by the SABC in a quest for the equal treatment of all South African languages. “As tax and TV license payers, we refuse to be treated...
by AfriForum | Sep 29, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum on 28 September 2020 applied to act as amicus curiae (friend of the court) before the Western Cape High Court to argue against the application by the Human Rights Commission (HRC), the EFF and other applicants to have certain...
by AfriForum | Sep 28, 2020 | Community Affairs Media statements, Media statements
On 22 September the AfriForum branch in Bethal in cooperation with the residents repaired potholes. This project has been managed by AfriForum for the last four years, after the Govan Mbeki Municipality failed to repair the roads. In 2016 AfriForum repaired Kleynhans...
