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.

AFRIFORUM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCHES PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL PATROL

ByAfriForum 17/03/202103/09/2021

On 12 and 13 March AfriForum’s safety structures in the Northern, Eastern and Western Cape participated in this organisation’s national patrol. More than 1 000 AfriForum members participated in the patrol and they were supported by nearly 270 other members, including various members of the SAPS. Approximately 900 vehicles covered 16 200 km and handled 32 incidents.

Members of the SAPS, security companies and other neighbourhood watches become directly involved which contributed to the successes. These activities included the following: wide and high visibility patrols, riding convoys through towns, roadblocks in cooperation with the SAPS, removing suspected persons from residential areas and confiscating a variety of illegal, homemade weapons.

The effective and purposeful cooperation of members that are not AfriForum neighbourhood watch members, is very important to the neighbourhood watches. The goal of the national patrol, that takes place every quarter, is to in particular encourage cooperation between AfriForum, the SAPS, security companies and other neighbourhood watches.

“Safety is in everyone’s interest and it is therefore important that everyone work together to effect higher levels of safety in our communities. The government does not have the ability or the desire to do it and this necessitates communities to take ownership of their safety themselves,” says Mark Kuys, AfriForum’s Head of Safety for the south region.

Become involved today with your local AfriForum neighbourhood watch and help to combat crime. SMS your name to 45353 (R1) or contact your nearest AfriForum branch or neighbourhood watch.