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 neighbourhood watch and Oakdale Watch join forces to extinguish fire at primary school

By 21/02/202003/11/2020

AfriForum’s Bellville neighbourhood watch, which forms part of AfriForum’s Cape Town North branch, joined forces with Oakdale Watch and law enforcement on 18 February 2020 to extinguish a fire in one of Laerskool Bellpark’s classrooms, after the classroom was set alight by an arsonist. A neighbourhood watch member of Oakdale Watch received a call from the school’s caretaker at around 05:00 who confirmed that a suspicious person had been noticed on the school grounds.

The caretaker and a patroller from Oakdale Watch searched the school grounds and saw the suspect who fled after starting the fire. After swift and good cooperation between AfriForum’s Bellville neighbourhood watch, Oakdale Watch and other role players, the fire was extinguished with buckets of water.

“We are thankful that security role-players and neighbourhood watch members are vigilant. We cannot allow anarchy to triumph – especially not at vulnerable places such as our local schools,’’ says Tommy van Zyl, Chairman of AfriForum’s Cape Town North branch.

Get involved with AfriForum’s Cape Town North branch today to make a difference in your community: SMS “Cape Town North” to 45265 (R1) to become involved.