AfriForum and Elize Perrin, whose brother, Mauritz Oberholzer, was murdered on his farm in September last year, submitted a volume comprising 10 complaints to the SA Human Rights Commission on Thursday, 30 May 2013. What is AfriForum asking from the SAHRC and what is their feedback? Esmarie Prinsloo interviews Ernst Roets on the issue.
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Information piece to create awareness on how to empower victims of farm attacks in South Africa. Inside: Prioritising farm attacks in South Africa The handling of investigations The empowerment of victims Download Post Views: 1,041
AfriForum today attended the seventh session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Forum on Minority Issues in Genève, Switzerland, to address the Forum on the state of minority rights in South Africa. It is the fifth time that AfriForum is attending the annual session of this forum. According to Alana Bailey, Deputy CEO of AfriForum…
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In accordance with the Promotion of Access to Information Act, AfriForum directed a formal request to the National Police Commissioner, Riah Phiyega, to hand over farm murder statistics from 1990 to 2015 to the organisation. The organisation further requested that the SAPS reveals the methodology concerning the collection of farm murder statistics. This follows after…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum accused Fikile Mbalula, the Minister of Police, of being a fabricator and distributor of fake news and says that the Minister is more concerned with his own political agenda than the safety of the public. This follows after a media statement by Bongani Mkongi, Deputy Minister of Police, in which…