Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

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AfriForum’s Phalaborwa branch stops copper thieves

Byafriforum 04/09/201903/11/2020

On 31 August 2019, AfriForum’s Phalaborwa branch rounded up thieves who were busy transporting copper from the Palabora Mining Company (PMC).

One of the suspects was spotted while running into bushes close to the mine by a neighbourhood watch member during a patrol in Koper Road. The neighbourhood watch immediately investigated, and after a wide search found 140 kg of stolen copper plates in two different hiding places.

The neighbourhood watch informed the mine and the SAPS of the find, and an investigation is currently underway.

“The Phalaborwa branch once again showed what communities can achieve when everyone take responsibility for their own safety and work together to curb crime,” says Cobus Louw, Chairperson of AfriForum’s Phalaborwa branch.

Join your local AfriForum branch today: SMS “Phalaborwa” to 45342 (R1).