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AfriForum wins cost order against govt’s national state of disaster to curb COVID-19

Lobby group, AfriForum, has won a costs order against the extension of the government’s national state of disaster to curb the spread of COVID-19. In February 2022, AfriForum served court documents in which the Pretoria High Court was requested to declare the state of disaster as invalid and unlawful. Despite the organisation’s impending legal action, the government extended the state of disaster for a further month on 15 March 2022. […]

25 March 2023

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Dis-Chem’s moratorium on hiring white people is racial discrimination: AfriForum

Lobby group AfriForum says there needs to be further dialogue with pharmaceutical retailer Dis-Chem on recruitment and racial discrimination due to its moratorium on hiring white people. It comes after a leaked document revealed that Dis-Chem’s CEO Ivan Saltzman called on managers to improve the company’s employment equity profile and effect transformation. Campaigns officer for strategy at AfriForum Ernst van Zyl says, “People can use any type of framing or […]

17 October 2022

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AfriForum goes to SCA in an attempt to legalise the display of the apartheid flag

LOCAL The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein will on Wednesday hear arguments by Afriforum in an attempt to legalise the display of the 1928 apartheid flag. AfrifForum is appealing against the Equality Court order that ruled that gratuitous display of the old national flag constitutes hate speech, unfair discrimination, and harassment. The order favoured the application by the Nelson Mandela Foundation that the display of the flag constitutes among […]

11 May 2022

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Afriforum calls on NPA to arrest mastermind behind Senzo Meyiwa’s murder

Lobby group Afriforum says it has written to the National Prosecuting Authority to ask them to act swiftly to ensure the arrest of the alleged mastermind in the killing of former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa. The five men implicated in the killing of the soccer star appeared in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court east of Johannesburg on Friday. The case was transferred to the High Court and postponed to October […]

6 March 2021

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BREAKING: AfriForum to privately prosecute Julius Malema

Lobby group AfriForum announced on Thursday that it intended to privately prosecute Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema on charges of fraud and corruption. The announcement was made in Centurion on Thursday morning by AfriForum's private prosecution head, the so-called "Pit Bull" himself, advocate Gerrie Nel. The group's legal team previously threatened legal action against the EFF and its leader, Malema, after he allegedly made racist remarks at a […]

19 April 2018

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Gerrie Nel aims sights at Jacob Zuma inner circle

Top gun Gerrie Nel‚ now working as a private prosecutor for a civil rights group‚ is aiming at a close associate of "Number One". In a short advisory on Wednesday‚ the advocate and AfriForum announced they will "tomorrow make an announcement about the private prosecution of a very prominent person in President Jacob Zuma’s inner circle". No further details were disclosed. Last month‚ Nel revealed that‚ based on the leaked […]

15 November 2017

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Thousands stage Black Monday protest

Civil rights group, AfriForum, says the killing of farmers has a serious chain reaction. It says it will launch Project Nahema, a 10 point plan for safeguarding farms and rural areas soon. AfriForum briefed the media during a meeting with religious leaders and Western Cape Community Safety MEC Dan Plato. The organisation has joined mass gathering of farmers and civil society on the N1 near Stellenbosch on Monday morning to […]

30 October 2017

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Zim embassy takes on AfriForum as Grace Mugabe saga unfolds

Should Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe be served court papers at the Zimbabwean embassy in South Africa or in person in her home country? That's what acting judge Harshila Kooverjile must decide after several factors were raised during argument on Tuesday. The embassy has applied to become an intervening party in AfriForum's application to see a decision by International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane to grant Mugabe diplomatic immunity […]

20 September 2017

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SADC Summit ‘smokescreen’ for Mugabe deal: Afriforum

Afriforum lawyer Willie Spies says Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe did not come to South Africa for the South African Development Community (SADC) Summit and could therefore not have qualified for diplomatic immunity. This follows the South African government's decision to grant Mugabe diplomatic immunity. Mugabe is accused of assaulting a model at a hotel in Sandton, north of Johannesburg a week ago. Afriforum earlier confirmed that it would submit […]

21 August 2017

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