The civil rights organisation AfriForum welcomes a watershed judgment handed down in the Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday which determines that many South Africans abroad will have their South African citizenship reinstated, which inter alia means that they will be able to participate in the South African national elections in 2024. The Supreme Court of…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum urgently appeals to farmers and rural residents to step up their security and preparedness. According to AfriForum, there have been at least seven farm murders nationwide in the past week. This past weekend alone, four people were killed in two separate incidents. In both incidents, the elderly was targeted. Hennie…
AfriForum’s farm murder report for the first quarter of 2023 indicates that at least 77 farm attacks, nine of which were murders, took place between January and March this year. The report was made public today and focuses on verified farm attacks for the first quarter of 2023. According to AfriForum, this figure is worrying…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum today launched its annual farm murder report for 2022. The report compares the number of farm murders with the number of suspects apprehended. According to AfriForum, it is worrying that only 33% of murder suspects are arrested. According to the report, farm attacks decreased in the past year from 415…
AfriForum and Solidarity managed to deal a final blow to the Department of Tourism’s discriminatory Tourism Fund. This comes after this department had appealed against the 2021 Supreme Court of Appeal’s 2021 ruling in favour of AfriForum and Solidarity in terms of which the use of black economic empowerment (BEE) as criteria for granting relief…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum handed in a report today in person at the offices of the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneve, Switzerland. This report forms part of AfriForum’s established and growing international awareness campaign. AfriForum today also took part in the fifteenth session of the United Nations…
AfriForum representatives will travel to Geneva, Switzerland to take part in the fifteenth session of the United Nations’ Forum on Minority Issues that takes place between 1 and 2 December. Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Chief Executive for International Liaison, will do a presentation, in person, on the continued hate speech and discrimination against minorities in South…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum today released a report on ANC failures and federal solutions. The report highlights government failures over the last couple of years which include key service delivery areas such as energy provision, policing, education and transport infrastructure. The author of the report, Reiner Duvenage, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum today launched a comprehensive campaign against the Expropriation Bill that threatens private property rights. This campaign has a local, national and international component. Nationally, this campaign involves a manifesto signed by 13 civil rights, agricultural, political and other organisations from across the country opposing the Expropriation Bill. AfriForum’s legal team…
The Equality Court today granted leave to appeal in the civil rights organisation AfriForum’s Kill the Boer hate speech case against the EFF, Julius Malema and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. This application comes after the Equality Court declared in August that the chant Kill the Boer is not hate speech. Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for strategy…
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