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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 said today that the civil rights organisation was grateful for the verdict in the farm murder case of André van der Merwe, a farmer from Ottosdal who was murdered in 2011, but added that a reactive approach to the farm murder crisis will not stop this phenomenon. The Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, was…

AfriForum will release a report on Thursday in which the brutality of farm murders is depicted. The International Rehabilitation Council for Victims of Torture has also given AfriForum the undertaking that they will study the report. The report will be introduced on 26 June – the day which has been proclaimed by the United Nations…

The civil rights organisation AfriForum requested an urgent meeting with the Minister of Police, Nkosinathi Nhleko, today to discuss possible solutions for the farm murder crisis with him. This follows after at least seven farm attacks were committed over the last two weeks, which includes one murder. This, in spite of a recent allegation by…