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: Vaal River in bigger trouble everyday

ByAfriForum 27/09/202127/09/2021

AfriForum today directed a letter to Senzo Mchunu, Minister of Water and Sanitation, after it came to light that sewage is still being dumped on numerous places in the Vaal River.

AfriForum have received numerous complaints of the deterioration in the Emfuleni Local Municipality especially with regards to the pollution of the Vaal River. As the former Minister of Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, previously stated Rand Water together with the Waste Water Transplant Works has taken control of the situation in the Vaal and of the refurbishment of the pump station to stop all sewage spillage into the Vaal River and other surrounding water resources.

“The Department of Water and Sanitation presents a smoke screen. The minister almost yearly announces that a company, organisation or government institution will address the problem. If all the money already spent is added up, the problem could have been solved a long time ago,” says Lambert De Klerk, AfriForum’s manager of Environmental Affairs.

AfriForum made several requests in its letter to the Department, among others to urgently meet with the Department to discuss the issue and provide action plans.

AfriForum also extended a hand to the Department to assist them and provide advice from the organisation’s database of specialists.