AfriForum submits PAIA application over erection of Zuma statue in North West
AfriForum today sent a PAIA application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Act No. 2 of 2000) to the office of Supra Mahumapelo, Premier of the North West, over the erection of a statue of Pres. Jacob Zuma in Groot Marico. In this application the civil rights organisation requests the following…
AfriForum requests urgent discussion with Police Minister over farm murders and land grabs
AfriForum on 7 March 2018 sent a request to Genl. Bheki Cele, the new Minister of Police, with a view to arrange a meeting to discuss farm murders and illegal land occupation. This follows after numerous remarks from political circles since the beginning of the year over the expropriation of land without compensation. “Political remarks…
Farm murders: A crisis international visitors should know about!
Foreign visitors to South Africa are also targeted on our country’s farms. Recently, a German couple was murdered on a farm. AfriForum will therefor launch an international awareness campaign regarding farm murders later this month. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum elaborates.
AfriForum presents action plan to the SAHRC for the prevention of farm murders
AfriForum presented the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) with a list of ten proposals of ways to prevent farm murders. This action plan forms part of a report which AfriForum presented to the SAHRC during a public hearing about farm murders held by the commission in Johannesburg on 15 and 16 September. The following…
Protest March to Mthethwa’s office
1 December 2012 The Potgieter family was murdered on their farm near Lindley in the Free State on 1 December 2010. In the light of this, AfriForum, together with victims of farm attacks and persons who had lost loved ones in farm murders, held a protest march to Mthethwa’s office in Pretoria. Initially, Mthethwa tried…
3 murders in 3 days. Police still absent in rural safety – AfriForum
AfriForum has again appealed to communities, especially those in rural areas, to safeguard themselves and to call in the help of the civil rights organisation to establish neighbourhood watches. This, after two more farm murders took place in Boschkop, east of Pretoria, which brings the number of farm murders in the Boschkop and Cullinan area…
Police negligence in farm murders adds to the problem
20 February 2012 began as an ordinary day in the lives of David and Bernadette Hall. The Halls were milking cows on their farm, Buffelshoek, near Fochville. There they were overpowered by five attackers. Bernadette was tied up and assaulted with a blunt object. David was less fortunate. After a fight with the robbers, who…
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